In the 1970s Deriugina gymnasts comprised the majority of the Soviet team with the Deriugina gymnasts becoming Soviet, European and World champions. 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. Ten years after the school's initial success, it had a few more champions to give.
Aleksandra Timoshenko become the Bronze medal winner at the
1988 Olympics and the Champion at
1992 Olympics. She became the role model for the
über-waif rhythmic gymnast look. Along with Timoshenko, the school produced
Oksana Skaldina who went on to claim the bronze medal at the
1992 Summer Olympics, with Timoshenko taking the gold. Throughout the 1990s the Deriugina School produced numerous champions and gymnasts of interest. Gymnasts such as
Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and
Elena Vitrichenko dominated the mid-1990s. 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. During the late 2013/early 2014
Euromaidan-protest in Kyiv, the school changed training halls several times and their main training centre
October Palace became occupied by protesters. According to Deriugins School pupil
Ganna Rizatdinova after Euromaidan they discovered that school equipment "like a TV set and a kettle, balls and clubs" had disappeared; "it was a strange kind of robbery. We don’t know who did it.” ==Notable alumni==