Yury Belykh was born on 30 September 1941 in the village of Nikolayevka, in the Ivanteyevsky District, of the Saratov Oblast, in a family of employees.

From September 1985 to February 1992, he was the Director of the Dubkovskaya poultry farm in the Saratov Oblast.

He was the people's Deputy of the Russian Federation from March 1990 until 1993, when he was deprived of his mandate for not appearing at the X Extraordinary Congress.

By decree of the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, on 25 February 1992, Belykh was appointed acting head of the administration of the Saratov Oblast.

[2] On 21 February 1996, he was dismissed from his post as governor by President Yeltsin, citing then words "for gross violations of the labor rights of citizens, expressed in the misuse of funds allocated from the federal budget and intended for the payment of wages to public sector workers, other social benefits.".