Irina Belskaya (born 1958) is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in spectroscopy and polarimetry of Small Solar System bodies, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets of the Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University,[1] recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2010).

In 1975, she graduated from a specialized physics and mathematics school with a gold medal and entered the Astronomy Department of Kharkiv University.

[3] She received grants from the American Astronomical Society (1992), DAAD (2000), the European Space Agency (2003), the International Space Science Institute (2008), scholarship from the Swedish Institute (1992), and the Marie Curie International Scholarship (2009).

dissertation "Optical properties of surfaces of asteroids, centaurs, and Kuiper belt bodies".

[3] In 2010, she received the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology for the collective work "Advancement of theoretical foundation, development and application of polarimetric techniques and instrumentation for remote sensing studies of Solar System objects by ground-based, aircraft, and spacecraft means".