Women Criminals In The USSR: 5 Most Famous

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

5 most famous female criminals in the USSR

It's not just men who commit violent crimes. The murder weapon is often taken into their own hands by beautiful and calm-looking women. In the Soviet Union there were representatives of the fair sex, whose audacious crimes shocked not only investigators, but the whole country. Some of them were sentenced to death.

Antonina Makarova

At the age of 19, Antonina Makarova went to the front. After the defeat in the Vyazemsky operation, the girl fled and ended up in a village occupied by the Germans. Antonina decided to stay with the invaders. Men constantly raped a woman, but she endured humiliation for food and shelter. Once the soldiers gave Makarova a drink and told her to shoot the prisoners. The woman did not miss and has since become a machine gunner. According to official data, more than 1,500 people were killed by Antonina Makarova, including children and the elderly.

Antonina's childhood idol was Anka the machine gunner, and Makarova, becoming an executioner, fulfilled her childhood dream

One of the soldiers infected the girl with syphilis, and the Germans sent her to the rear. Makarova recovered, got a job as a nurse in a hospital and got married. The family led a quiet life until one day the woman was arrested. Her husband and children sought her release, but after learning the reason for the arrest, they left the city. By a court decision, Makarova was shot in 1979.

during the trial, Makarova remained calm: she believed that, after years, she would be given a not very harsh sentence

Berta Borodkina

The woman headed the trust of restaurants and canteens. She always bought cheap groceries and underweight, so she was able to steal a lot of money. Moreover, the waiters and directors of all cafes and canteens in the city had to pay Berta every month. If someone refused, then this employee would be fired. The restaurant trust headed by Borodkina was a real mafia. By regularly giving bribes, the woman saved herself from sudden checks. For such qualities Borodkina was called "Iron Bella".

Berta Borodkina was sentenced to capital punishment for systematic embezzlement of socialist property on an especially large scale

Bertha was arrested because of an anonymous statement. As a result of the investigation, it was revealed that the woman had stolen over a million rubles. By a court decision, Borodkina was shot.

During the years of managing the trust, Borodkina stole more than a million rubles from the state

Tamara Ivanyutina

In 1987, several students and school staff were taken to the hospital with signs of poisoning, four of whom died immediately. A search was organized in the homes of school employees, during which a thallium-based solution was found at the previously convicted dishwasher Ivanyutina.

Tamara was arrested, and the woman admitted that she just wanted to punish the students. However, further investigation found out that these were not the first murders of Ivanyutina. A woman poisoned her first husband for an apartment. Later, the parents of Tamara's second husband were killed. She just didn't have a good relationship with them. The woman also poisoned her second husband in small doses. She wanted to inherit his house and land. In addition, a school party organizer, a nurse and two students were killed. The chemistry teacher managed to survive.

Tamara Ivanyutina refused to admit guilt and apologize to the relatives of the victims

The crimes were committed by all members of Tamara's family. Her sister killed her husband, and her parents killed her neighbor and two relatives. In total, the Ivanyutins family committed 40 poisonings, 13 of which resulted in death. The killer's sister was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the father - 10, and the mother - 13. Tamara Ivanyutina was shot.

Sofia Komarova

Sofya Komarova was the wife of Vasily Komarov, the first Soviet serial killer. The man committed crimes during the NEP. Vasily drank from childhood, and he was often caught on petty thefts, and he began to kill at the age of 44, when private entrepreneurs appeared. Komarov, disguised as a buyer, got to know the future victims, gave them water and killed them. At first, before committing the crime, Vasily sent his wife with children, but one day she returned early and saw blood. Since then, Sophia distracted the victims, and then washed away the traces of blood and packed the bodies into bags. In 1923, Vasily was caught, and the man confessed to killing 33 people. The maniac did not even regret, because he only killed speculators. Vasily and Sofya Komarovs were shot in the same year.

Sofya Komarova helped her husband deal with the victims

Madina Shakirova

From 1979 to 1985, the watchman Alexei Sukletin killed, raped and ate seven women, with the smallest victim being only 11 years old. Madina Shakirova did not take part in the killings, but she helped the man to butcher the bodies. Together they drank blood, ate soft tissues, and Madina made soups, dumplings, cutlets and jellied meat from meat. The criminals also sold the meat of the victims under the guise of pork to their neighbors. If the killed girls were wearing good clothes, then Shakirova washed them and appropriated them. Once Sukletin ordered Shakirova to kidnap the baby, but the woman refused and ran away from the maniac, but later returned again. When the police detained Sukletin, Madina Shakirova gave testimony, which took 70 pages. The prosecution asked for the death penalty for Shakirova, then the woman was given 15 years, since the court took into account extenuating circumstances. Alexei Sukletin was shot in 1987.

Madina Shakirova helped Sukletin cut and cook the dead

Some of these women went to violent crimes out of greed, while others out of a desire to help maniac husbands. One way or another, they received the most terrible punishment - execution by firing squad. But many of them never admitted their guilt.