Career
Bryzhina is the daughter of the successful Soviet athletes Olga Bryzhina and Viktor Bryzhin. Bryzhina is a student at the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University on a sports scholarship. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London she and her teammates Olesya Povh, Mariya Ryemyen and Hrystyna Stuy took the bronze medals in the 4 x 100 metres relay by setting a new national record.
She is currently serving a two-year doping ban for the use of the banned anabolic steroid, Drostanolone, having tested positive at the 2013 World Championships.
The ban lasts from 15 August 2013 to 27 August 2015.