At one of his first international competitions, the 1972 Winter Universiade, a contemporary review noted that even the pros were puzzled by the jump, which was described as "somewhat like an Arabian cartwheel, only performed going straight ahead".

He currently skates with Moscow Stars On Ice and works as a coach and choreographer.

[4] He choreographed Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze's competitive Chaplin program.

Bobrin was first married to Natalia Ovchinnikova, with whom he has a son, Maxim, born in 1977.

In 1983 he married the future Olympic champion in ice dancing, Natalia Bestemianova.