He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (named the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation before 1992),[2] and regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[3] most famous for his historical and genre paintings.
After graduation in 1949, Yuri Belov was adopted at the first course of Department of Painting at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he studied of noted educators Vladimir Serov, Piotr Belousov, Ivan Sorokin, and Ivan Stepashkin.
In 1955, Yuri Belov graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Rudolf Frentz studio, together with Piotr Litvinsky, Evgeny Maltsev, Victor Reykhet, Galina Smirnova, and other young artists.
Yuri Belov most famous for his historical paintings devoted to image of Lenin, the history of Bolshevism and Revolution movement in Russia.
Paintings by Yuri Vladimirovich Belov reside in Art Museums and private collections in Russia, France, Japan, in the U.S., and others.