Pavel Belyayev est né le 26 juin 1925 à Chelishchevo, Northern Dvina Governorate, Russian SFSR, USSR [aujourd'hui Babushkinsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia]. Il était marié à Tatyana Filippovna. Il est mort le 10 janvier 1970 à Moscou, URSS.
Accounts of Belyayev's life and space career appear in the 2003 book "Fallen Astronauts" and the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea, both by Colin Burgess. Belyayev is also used as a character in Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens 2005 novel, Freefall, in which he is the first person to land on the moon, hours before Apollo 11.
