Deriugins School

Every year since 1992 the club plays host to the biggest rhythmic gymnastics competition in Ukraine, The Deriugina Cup (Кубок Дерюгіної).

During this era the most notable individual gymnast was, Irina Deriugina — the 1977 and 1979 World champion.

The school was very strong in the groups discipline during this period with European and World titles for the group, consisting of Viktoria Serykh, Olga Plokhova, Ludmila Yevtushenko, Olga Shchegoleva, Zhanna Vasyura and Irina Deriugina.

The school had a big emergence of talent in the late 1990s and early 2000s led by Tamara Yerofeeva and the daughter of Viktoria Serykh, Anna Bessonova.

We don’t know who did it.”[3] In the early 2020s, former gymnasts Natalia Godunko and Valeriya Yuzvyak alleged that the Deriuginas were psychologically and physically abusive.