Berta Borodkina

Berta Borodkina
Born
Berta Naumovna Korol

6 June 1927
Diedunknown (post 1982)
Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
Criminal statusExecuted
ConvictionEmbezzlement
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Span of crimes
1974–1982
CountrySoviet Union
Date apprehended
1982

Berta Naumovna Borodkina (Russian: Бе́рта Нау́мовна Боро́дкина; née Korol; 1927–after 1984) was a Soviet official in charge in trade related to catering, executed for embezzling. She was the head of a trust of restaurants and canteens in Gelendzhik, honored worker of trade and public catering of the RSFSR. Borodkina had the nickname Iron Bella.

She was the second of the three women executed in Soviet Union in the period from 1960 to 1987. She was sentenced to death for systematic theft of socialist property.