She was the head of a trust of restaurants and canteens in Gelendzhik, honored worker of trade and public catering of the RSFSR.
[1] Borodkina began working in the field of trade with the posts of barmaid and waitress, and was subsequently appointed to the position of director of canteen.
According to Anton Lopatin, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Krasnodar Krai for media relations, resident's housing resembled museum stores, which contained numerous precious jewelry, furs, crystal products, and bedding sets that were in short supply at that time.
In addition, according to the testimony of the member of the prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Krai Vladimir Nagorny, she kept large sums of money at home, which the investigators found in the most unexpected places – in radiators and under the carpets in the rooms, rolled up banks in the basement, in the warehouses backyard bricks.
[3] It is believed that in total during her activities she received from partners in goods and cash worth more than a million roubles.