[2] Igor Belchuk was born on 15 May 1947,[3] in the family of civil engineers, his father, Lev Alexandrovich, and his mother, Regina Solomonovna, née Rzhevskaya.
[5] He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering FEPI, and then worked at a construction site.
After that, he became interested in building science and worked at the Far Eastern Research, Design and Technological Institute for Construction.
In 1990, he was elected director of the Soyuzdalgiproris Institute, and three years later he joined the team of the new governor of Primorsky Krai, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, as hiz vice-governor.
At the post, he oversaw the construction, road facilities, transport and activities of nine seaports.