Career
As a player, he played for Zenit Saint St. Petersburg, Dynamo Saint St. Petersburg, Dinamo Minsk, and Ventspils. He took a six-year break from football after 5 matches for Zenit in 1991 to study in the United States, where he earned a degree in sports management and business administration. He made his return to Russia in 1998 with Dynamo Saint St. Petersburg in the Russian Second Division.
His father Yuri Bezborodov played professionally in 1960s and 1970s for Football Club Irtysh Omsk and Football Club Dynamo Leningrad.
Bezborodov became a Fédération internationale de football association referee in 2009. He was selected as one of three Russian referees in the summer of 2010, alongside Maksim Layushkin and Stanislav Sukhina, to work Union of European Football Associations Champions League and Europa League matches for the upcoming season.
Starting in 2012, he officiated in 2014 World Cup qualifying, taking charge of the match between the Czechoslovakian Republic and Bulgaria.