Family
Blokhin was married to Irina Deriugina, (Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast) world champion in free-stand exercise, but the couple divorced in the early 1990s. Blokhin & Deriugina have a daughter named Irina Olehivna Blokhina who wrote and performed the Euro 2012 anthem.
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