Yuri Nilovich Tulin was born August 14, 1921, in village of Maksatikha, Tver Oblast, Soviet Russia.

In 1944, after the liberation of Leningrad from the enemy's blockade and the return from evacuation institute Yuri Tulin resume classes at the faculty of painting.

In 1950, Yuri Tulin graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Boris Ioganson personal Art Studio.

His graduation work was a historical painting named "Sergei Kirov in Khibin Mountains", dedicated to industrial development of the Kola Peninsula.

(1957, State Russian Museum), award-winning Grand Prix at the International Art Exhibition in Brussels in 1958.