[2] Golubev was born 15 June 1925 in the village of Medvezhje, Yaroslavl Province, USSR, into a peasant family.

In 1938 Golubev graduated from elementary school in town Soligalich and came to Leningrad, where he lived and worked since 1938.

In 1948 Golubev entered the Tavricheskaya Art School where he studied at V. Petrova, G. Shakh, M. Shuvaev.

[4] Among his works are such paintings as "A Village of Putiatyno"[5] (1957), [[:|"Horses"]][6] (1962), "Spring Rain", "Ladozhka River"[7] (both 1963), "At the Fence", "A Summer"[8] (both 1964), [[:|"A Winter Sketch"]][9] (1966), "Spring Brook"[10] (1968), "Soldier's Family"[11] (1969), "Light-Blue Day"[12] (1971), "Golden Russia",[13] "A Summer"[14] (both 1972), "Geologists"[15] (1976), "Green Spaces", "Autumn Harvest"[16] (both 1977), [[:|"Green Lake"]],[17] "Summer harvest", "In the Northern Land", "Light-Blue Spaces" (all 1980), and others.

[18] His paintings now reside in art museums and private collections in Russia,[19] Finland, Germany, England, Japan, France,[20] and the USA.