She has four children, one of her own and three she adopted. Indeed, adoption is common in her family. She and her first husband, Bulgarian diplomat Boyko Gyurov, have one daughter of their own, Russian actress
Kseniya Alfyorova, who was born on May 24, 1974, in Sofia, Bulgaria. After Irina and Boyko divorced, Kseniya was subsequently adopted and raised by Irina's second husband, Russian actor
Aleksandr Abdulov. When Irina married for the third time to Russian actor
Sergey Martynov, whom she met on the set of
Zvezda sherifa (1991), she adopted and raised his two children, Anastasiya and Sergey. Irina also adopted and raised her sister Tatyana's son, Aleksandr, after Tatyana died in 1997.
