Doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor, and academician of the Russian Academy of Education.

Berulava was born on 3 August 1950 in Sukhumi, at the time the capital of the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, but is now the capital of the partially recognized Abkhazia.

[1] In 1978, he graduated from the Chelyabinsk Mechanization and Agricultural Electrification Institute, which is now part of South-Ural State Agrarian University [ru].

In the 2011 Russian legislative election, he received a deputy mandate in the 6th State Duma on the list of the CPRF.

However, the death of Russian Nobel laureate and politician Zhores Alferov in 2019 brought Berulava back to the State Duma to fill his vacant seat.