Born in Lviv, then part of the Ukrainian SSR, in the Soviet Union, Belogolovtsev joined the Moscow State Academy of Choreography in 1992, under the tutelage of Professor Alexander Bondarenko.
He has taken part on various international projects, dancing alongside Nina Ananiashvili, Nadezhda Gracheva, and Anna Antonicheva.
Belogolovtsev was nominated for the "Golden Mask" for "Best Actor in the Ballet" in 2000, for his performance in the lead role in Afternoon Rest of the Faun.
In 2003 he played Ferhad in Legend of Love, for which he was nominated for the Prix Benois de la Danse.
Between 2004 and 2015 he performed with Sergei Filin and Anna Antonicheva in the Mayakovsky Theatre's Love Through the Eyes of a Detective.