Valentin Danilovich Belousov (Russian: Валенти́н Дани́лович Белоу́сов; 20 February 1925 – 23 July 1988) was a Soviet and Moldovan mathematician and a corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR (1968).

Father Daniel Afinogenovich Belousov (1897–1956), was an officer in the army of Tsarist Russia (graduated from military school in Tbilisi).

Children: Alexander Valentinovich (03.10.1948 – 3 September 1998), PhD in physics, senior research fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova; Tatiana Valentinovna Kravchenko (born 16 February 1952), a doctor neurologist.

For merits in the field of science, education and social activities, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1961), Honorary Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (1967), he was elected as correspondent member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences the USSR (1968).

In 1994 at the initiative of the students of V. D. Belousov at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the ASM was established the scientific journal "Quasigroups and Related Systems (http://www.quasigroups.eu/)'", now known all over the world.

For twenty years this magazine published many articles by both Moldovan and foreign specialists in the theory of quasi-groups and regions close to it.

In this workshop, his disciples and followers from Moldova and other countries take stock of the past year and report on new results in the theory of quasi-groups and related areas.