November 5, a resident of the Voronezh region in the lottery 506 million rubles, this is the largest win in the history of Russia, said on Sunday in the lottery operator Stoloto.
November 2, a resident of the US state of North Carolina Kimberly Morris in one day, the amount of winnings for which exceeded one million dollars. The woman was offered to receive the entire amount in the form of payments of 50 thousand dollars over 20 years, or else to take 600 thousand immediately. Morris opted for a lump sum and took home almost $420,000 after all taxes were deducted.
$758.7 million American Powerball lottery winning ticket in Massachusetts on August 24, exact location not named.
On April 11, a family from the French city of Dijon entered the EuroMillions lottery, receiving 83.4 million euros at a lottery ticket price of 2.5 euros. The chances of the lucky ones to win such a win were 1 in 116 million.
On October 15, a resident of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg Eurojackpot maximum prize of 90 million euros. The Eurojackpot lottery is popular among residents of 17 European countries. To win the jackpot, players need to match five numbers out of 50 and two additional numbers out of ten.
On August 12, a resident of Estonia won 1.155 million euros during the drawing of the international lottery Eurojackpot. According to the state company Eesti Loto, this win is the biggest in the history of lotteries in Estonia.
On July 29, a resident of German Hesse won 84.8 million euros in the Eurojackpot lottery. The lucky winner managed to guess all the winning numbers
On May 8, the winning ticket in the $429.6 million Powerball lottery in the US state of New Jersey. The probability of winning is 1 in 292.2 million.
March 5 brothers James and Bob Stoklas from the US state of Pennsylvania. However, the winnings were not evenly distributed: the lottery ticket brought James $291.4 million, while Bob won $7.
On February 27, a resident of Novosibirsk, a participant in Gosloto 6 out of 45, Gosloto in 358 million 358 thousand 466 rubles. He took part in three draws. His lucky bet, which the winner made in one of the city's lottery kiosks, cost 1,800 rubles. The record fell on the 1885th edition.
On 15 February, the UK's national lottery operator Camelot confirmed that the United Kingdom had filed nearly £25 million in Europe's biggest lottery Euromillions.
On February 12, a company of friends from Dublin of the EuroMillions European lottery in the amount of 132 million euros with a resident of France. The winners received 66 million euros each.
On September 19, a winning $399.4 million Powerball lottery ticket at a gas station in the US state of South Carolina.
On August 25, the media reported that a resident of Switzerland 93.6 million euros in the popular European lottery EuroMillions. This is the biggest win for Switzerland.
On August 8, the organizers of the American Powerball lottery announced that three tickets with lucky numbers were sold in the states of New Jersey and Minnesota, in the amount of $448 million.
June 5 organizers of the Powerball lottery in May. She was 84-year-old Gloria Mackenzie from Florida. She bought a lottery ticket at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, where only 13,000 people live. She had the option to choose annual payments or a lump sum payment. By choosing the latter, McKenzie received only $370.8 million instead of $590.5 million, which was the nominal amount of the winnings. Mackenzie has won the largest single-person win in US history.
On June 1, in the 585th draw of "Gosloto" 6 out of 45 ", the accumulated super prize, equal to 121 million 835 thousand 582 rubles, was shared by two participants - a resident of Perm Valery (60 million 917 thousand 821 rubles) and a resident of Volgograd Olga (61 million 518 thousand 163 ruble).
On May 28, a resident of the UK in the pan-European lottery EuroMillions over 81 million pounds (nearly 95 million euros). The anonymous winner immediately became 908th in the list of the richest Britons.
On April 26, the media reported that a resident of the US state of New Jersey, 44-year-old Pedro Quezada, on a Powerball lottery ticket. After paying all the necessary taxes, Quezada had about $ 152 million in his hands.
April 6, two residents of Belgium for two 26.5 million euros in the European lottery EuroMillions.
On November 29, the organizers of the American Powerball lottery reported that two US residents who bought winning tickets amounted to $580 million.
On November 14, a resident of France won one of - 169.8 million euros in the pan-European lottery Euro Millions.
On November 6, four winners shared the biggest jackpot in Australia. The OZ lotto won AUD 112 million.
On September 18, in the 477th draw of Gosloto 6 out of 45, the accumulated super prize at expanded rates, equal to 152 million 723 thousand 884 rubles, was divided among four participants.
August 11 resident of the UK pan-European lottery Euromillions, which amounted to 148 million pounds (190 million euros).
On March 31, one of the largest Mega Millions lottery jackpots of $656 million was shared by three people from the states of Illinois, Kansas and Missouri.
On March 7, 81-year-old Rhode Islander Louise White entered the popular $210 million Powerball lottery in the US, putting the winning ticket into a Bible the night before the draw and sleeping with it.
On February 29, a resident of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik paid 13.4 million kunas (about $2.3 million) after buying lottery tickets weekly for 30 years and marking the same numbers on them every week.
February 15, local media that a resident of China's Sichuan won the lottery nearly 42 million dollars. China's Fuli Caipiao Lottery Center said a resident of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, has won 200 million yuan ($41.3 million) in the Two-Color Ball lottery. The lucky winner of the prize had to pay 50 million yuan ($7.9 million) in taxes and donated another 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) to charity.
On January 27, a lottery prize of 4.872 million euros was drawn. The lucky person guessed a combination of seven numbers and an additional digit. The ticket was paid for in the city of Maribor.
Material prepared on the basis of open sources
Urgently on the front page! The main record holder of Russian lotteries was found! The participant of the 1204th Russian Lotto draw, who won the Jackpot in size, came to Moscow to receive his winnings at the Stoloto lottery center.
Meet! Her name is Vlasova Natalya Petrovna. She is 63 years old. She lives in the Voronezh region. She bought a ticket that changed her whole life in one of the branches of the Russian Post. Natalia came with her daughter Ekaterina to process the winnings. Natalia's winning story is amazing. Usually she finds out the results of the draws herself. But this time she trusted her granddaughter to check the ticket. She said she didn't win the ticket. But Natalya Petrovna's instinct suggested that the ticket should still be kept. And a lottery ticket for half a billion rubles lay on the shelf for a whole week. Natalya Petrovna and her family saw the news on television that a record winner from their region was being sought, but they did not attach much importance to this.
“The second time I rechecked the ticket myself on the website. I dialed the number and saw an incredible amount. “Something incomprehensible is happening,” flashed through my head. Then we called a few more times and double-checked the information,” says the daughter of the winner, Ekaterina.
Natalya Petrovna and her daughter have not yet decided how to dispose of the winnings. The reason is that it is quite difficult to plan such a huge amount in an instant. However, in an interview, the women confidently said that part of the winnings would be donated to charity. Natalya Petrovna wished all lottery participants to believe in their luck.
We sincerely congratulate Natalia on this phenomenal win and wish good luck always be with her. And we wish you, dear friends, to be among our millionaires as soon as possible. Buy Russian Lotto tickets and let the new 100 million Jackpot be yours.
For exactly a year, non-state lotteries have been banned in Russia, since they "are capable of exerting a serious negative impact on the sphere of morality, the rights and legitimate interests of citizens" (from the definition of the Constitutional Court). It is assumed that the total revenue of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Sports from the new state lotteries will be approximately 26-27 billion rubles a year. At the same time, the annual turnover of the lottery business in the United States reaches 30 billion dollars, in Japan - 8 billion, in Germany, Spain and Italy, about 6 billion each.
And the winnings in other countries are much larger. The largest jackpot in the history of American lotteries was recorded in 2007 - $390 million. The absolute European record is the 2009 win - 147.8 million euros. The Russian record set last year was 184.5 million rubles.
But not all the lucky ones, as Rossiyskaya Gazeta found out, were made happy by the millions won.
Luck knocked three times
In June 2010, 57-year-old Missouri-American Ernst Pullen won $1 million in the 100 Million Dollar Blockbuster lottery. In September, he already won $2 million in the Mega MONOPOLY lottery. Pallen decided to take all the money at once in cash, rather than receive it in installments annually. He believes that he has almost used up his supply of luck.
And mother and daughter McCauley of New York State won three lottery prizes together: in 1991 they won $15.5 million, in 2007 - $161,000, and last year another $100,000. According to her daughter, Kimberly McCauley, she plans to use her winnings to pay off a loan for studying at the university, and she will also buy a car.
Don't tempt fate
American Evelyn Adams won the lottery twice, in 1985 and 1986. The total winnings amounted to 5.4 million dollars, but the lucky woman decided that she deserved more. And she went to the casino city of Atlantic City, where she eventually lost all the money. Today she lives in a trailer park.
Another American Vivian Nicholson, who won 3 million dollars in 1961, when asked by journalists what she would do with the winnings, said: “Spend, spend, spend!” And she spent five years on this, during which she managed to become a widow, marry five more once, have a stroke, become an alcoholic, recover, attempt suicide twice, and spend some time in an insane asylum.With no money, no family, no job, she lived on her modest $300 pension.
Canadian Gerald Muswagen won $10 million in 1998. He spent the money on alcohol and parties in just seven years. And in 2005, he hanged himself in his parents' garage.
Englishman Michael Carroll won $15 million in 2002 and spent it on drugs, parties and cars in just five years. Then he returned to his former job as a scavenger.
American Jack Whittaker, who won 315 million dollars in 2002, was tortured in his hometown with lawsuits: men - allegedly because he beat them, women were accused of rape. Jack became depressed and started drinking. Then, in his house, they found the corpse of a friend of his granddaughter, who died of a drug overdose, and a couple of months later, a 17-year-old granddaughter also died for the same reason. By the end of 2004, Whittaker divorced his wife, squandered all the money and drank completely.
Canadian Ibi Roncailoli from Ontario, having won 5 million in 1991, secretly from her husband gave part of the winnings (2 million) to her child from another man. Upon learning of this, her husband Joseph poisoned her with painkillers. He was found guilty of manslaughter.
Money can not buy happiness
In Nigeria, 46-year-old Rosemary Obiekor won more than three million naira (about 15.7 thousand euros), and at the ceremony of presenting the money, shown on local television, she announced that she would give the money to the first beggar she met. She explained that she had heard many stories of people winning the lottery, starting to spend that money, and then having a lot of bad luck befall them. Therefore, the winner, according to her, decided not to tempt fate. And indeed, having cashed her check in the bank, she gave the bag with money to a beggar woman who, with a two-year-old child, was sitting nearby on the street, begging.
Canadians Allen and Violet Large, who won $10.9 million in the lottery, gave away $10.6 million to various organizations in their area - churches, fire stations, cemeteries and the local branch of the Red Cross. The rest was left for a rainy day. "We have enough of what we have and we feel great," says Allen Large, 75. "We don't have any plans. We don't travel. We didn't buy anything. Because we don't need anything."
In the United States, Jeannette Lee, a South Korean immigrant who won $18 million in 1993, donated $1.3 million to the University of Washington, where a reading room was named after her, and in 1998 she established a benevolent society to help all Koreans living in America. But in the same year, she got hooked on gambling. By 2000, her debts on loans exceeded 200,000, in 2001 Jeannette declared herself bankrupt.
American Jeffrey Dampier won $20 million in 2004 and gave friends and family expensive gifts, including luxury cars, trips to exotic resorts, and so on. But daughter-in-law Victoria Jackson was not enough. In 2005, she and her boyfriend kidnapped a millionaire and shot him in the head. The envious couple were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Russians are no exception
A resident of Ufa, a former dryer of the Ufa machine-building association, and then unemployed, Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova won 29,814,000 rubles in Bingo in 2001. She lived with her husband and two children, loved to drink. After winning, alcoholics and newly-made relatives reached out to their apartment. The Mukhametzyanovs accepted everyone, vodka flowed like water. Of the two apartments bought for winnings in the elite district of Ufa, one burned down, two purchased cars were soon smashed. Teenage sons Alyosha and Rustem abandoned their studies and drove crowds of friends around the kiosks and gaming halls. In 2006, Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova died in complete poverty.
But 51-year-old Muscovite Yevgeny Sidorov, having won 35 million rubles in 2009, left for the village and took up agriculture: he restored cowsheds, put roads in order, cleaned local ponds and made paid fishing.
And the residents of the Samara region Natalya and Oleg, having won 4 million 50 thousand 181 rubles, donated all the funds for the construction of the church.
There is no information about the fate of the owner of the largest lottery win in Russian history. It is known that a resident of Omsk, the father of three children, who worked in a construction company, became the lucky one. Immediately after receiving the winnings, he announced that he would leave his hometown. "This amount is so large that I personally do not see the need for myself to stay in Siberia. This is such a chance to go somewhere warmer, buy a big house by the water and feel happy every day ...".
Russia is a country of those who like to take risks, those who are not averse to trying their luck once or twice in a variety of ways. It is not for nothing that the phrase “who does not take risks does not drink champagne” has taken root among the people. And sometimes, fortune really smiles on the brave and desperate. To participate in the lottery, of course, you don’t need to have great courage, but you need to be a desperate enough person to believe in winning. But these people did it! 🙂
wuzzup presents to your attention the 10 most lucky people in Russia who managed to win a fortune in the lottery.
10. Yuri Ivanov from Tolyatti - 952 thousand rubles
In 2008, a resident of Tolyatti, Yuri Ivanov, unexpectedly for himself, practically became a millionaire. It happened on the eve of Epiphany, when the man was playing the next lottery. According to the owner of the amount of 952 thousand rubles, he saw the winning numbers in a dream. Yuri has been waiting for 23 years for fortune to knock on his window. Throughout all these years, the player has thought of different strategies to win, and then the day came when the lucky one was able to guess all the numbers. Ivanov did not say what he would spend the won amount on, but he assured that he would dispose of it wisely. The Togliatti resident is going to continue playing the lottery, as he is sure that he will be able to win an even larger amount. Well, let's wish him good luck.
9. Uralian from the village of Vargashi, Kurgan region - 1 million rubles
A Uralian from the village of Vargashi, Kurgan Region, did not expect that on Christmas Eve he would become a millionaire. It happened on January 6, 2008. It was on that day that a resident of the village decided to play the lottery and hit the jackpot of 1 million rubles. In an instant, the man became the richest in the village. By the way, this is the biggest lottery win in such a remote area from the Russian capital. Prior to this, the villagers managed to win no more than 200 thousand. The owner of the million chose not to disclose his name, respectively, and nothing is known about how the money was spent either.
8. Alexander Osterenko from the Samara region - 2.5 million rubles
In 2011, Alexander Osterenko, a resident of the Samara region, unexpectedly became a millionaire by winning the amount of 2.5 million rubles. The idea to buy a lottery ticket in the mail came to the young man spontaneously. When Alexander began to remove the protective layer, he was very surprised to see the printed amount. Osterenko disposed of money wisely, having bought an apartment for himself.
7. Unknown train passenger - 11 million rubles
As practice shows, you can become a millionaire simply by buying a ticket from the Russian Railways company. So an unknown passenger of the train, having indicated the number of his railway ticket in the lottery ticket, became the happy owner of 11 million rubles. The winner of the lottery was searched for about two weeks to present a cash prize. This is the biggest Russian Railways lottery win. True, a little later, a considerable amount was also won in Russian Railways - 8 million rubles. If nothing is known about the first lucky person, then there is some information about the second owner of millions: the money went to the Kemerovo region to a pensioner who asked not to disclose any information about her to the media. It can only be said with complete certainty that these passengers have purchased lucky tickets in the literal sense.
6. Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova - 29 million rubles
Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova, together with her husband, in 2001, on December 30, became the owner of 29 million rubles, hitting the jackpot in the Bingo Show. Luck was brought by one of the six tickets purchased by the family on the eve of the game. Such a fabulous amount of unemployed spouses did not even dream of. Alas, one of the biggest lottery wins did not bring happiness. The money was spent on the purchase of housing and the purchase of two cars of the domestic auto industry, but the spouses managed to spend most of the amount on slot machines and booze. Bought cars were broken during the accident, the apartment burned down in a fire. Soon, the millionaire who appeared on television screens turned into a beggar. Nadezhda died five years later, having developed a trophic ulcer. After that, the husband of the deceased stopped drinking and now leads a reclusive life along with his remaining sons.
5. Muscovite Evgeny Sidorov - 35 million rubles
In the spring of 2009, Muscovite Yevgeny Sidorov won 35 million rubles in the Gosloto lottery. The bet cost the man 560 rubles. An ordinary locksmith became a millionaire in an instant. The man decided to dispose of his winnings very wisely: together with his family, he left for his homeland, in the Lipetsk region, where he decided to do business. Now Evgeny has his own farm, in addition to this, the millionaire is breeding carps. The man spent the winnings not only on his own needs: he repaired the road in his native village of Sidorov, and also cleaned the local cowsheds and ponds. The newly minted businessman lives happily with his family in a new house and drives the Nissan Navara car he dreamed of buying for so long.
4. Albert Begrakyan - 100 million rubles
In 2009, fortune smiled on Albert Begrakyan, a resident of the Leningrad region, and he became the owner of a large sum of money - 100 million rubles. This is one of the biggest winnings in the Gosloto 6 out of 45 lottery, where the probability of winning is 1 in 8 million. The millionaire spent all the finances in just two years. Albert provided a full account of what such a large sum was spent on. The man invested about half of the money received in the construction of the hotel, about 16 million was spent on the purchase of real estate in St. Petersburg, about the same amount was spent on the repair of the acquired St. Petersburg apartment. The rest of the money was spent on buying a premium car for myself and buying a car for my father. The generous millionaire also bought an apartment for his sister, gave out about 12 million in debt to friends and donated about 2 million to charity.
3. Valery T. from Omsk - 184 million rubles
Valery T. from Omsk hit the jackpot of 184 million rubles on February 10, 2014. This is one of the biggest lottery wins of all time. Valery was made happy by the Gosloto 6 out of 45 lottery when he made a multi-circulation bet in the amount of 810 rubles. The winner was in no hurry to receive the prize, as he was dumbfounded by the announced amount of winnings. It is known that after breaking the jackpot, a resident of Omsk was going to move from his native city to a warmer region and buy housing there for himself and his family.
2. Mikhail from Nizhny Novgorod - 200 million rubles
The biggest lottery win went to Mikhail from Nizhny Novgorod. Lucky hit a big jackpot in the amount of 200 million rubles in the fall of 2014. A bet of only 700 rubles helped the man turn into a millionaire overnight. No specific information about the lucky man could be found out.
1. A resident of Novosibirsk - 358 million rubles
A resident of Novosibirsk became the owner of the biggest win in Russia in history. The lucky winner won 358 million rubles in the Gosloto lottery on February 28, 2016. The winner chose to remain anonymous.
Jackpot and won $758.7 million, the largest prize ever awarded to a single lottery ticket. The largest winnings paid out to lottery participants are in the RBC photo gallery.
Biggest jackpot in history
In January 2016, in the American Powerball lottery, the largest jackpot in history in the amount of more than $ 1.5 billion. The owners of three tickets managed to guess the winning combination, each of which decided to receive the prize immediately, and not for 30 years. For this reason, the amount of the payment amounted to $327.8 million each. This lottery caused a serious stir in the country - the organizers expected that the income from ticket sales would reach $ 1.3 million per minute during the evening peak hours.
Biggest single ticket win to date
In July 2016, participants in another of the most popular American lotteries, Mega millions, were able to hit the jackpot in the amount of $536 million. The winners, who bought a ticket in Indiana, chose not to reveal their identity so as not to endanger their children. They also preferred to receive their winnings in one payment - it amounted to about $ 378 million.
Biggest Powerball win so far
So far, the biggest single-ticket Powerball win was in 2013. Then, $590.5 million was drawn in the same lottery, and an 84-year-old American from Florida became the owner of the lucky ticket. The winner chose to receive her winnings in one payout, which amounted to $370.8 million.
$487 million jackpot
Another big Powerball win in July 2016 was a New Hampshire couple. The lottery jackpot was $487 million. The winners also decided to win in one payout of $341.7 million. They immediately donated part of this amount to charity.
real shock
Two months earlier, a $429.6 million jackpot was drawn in Powerball. The winners were a 70-year-old New Jersey resident and her seven daughters, one of whom called the incident "God's intervention" and "a real shock." According to her, the family decided to pay off the mortgage and education loans first. They also decided not to stretch payments over 30 years, so they received $284 million.
European record
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In Europe's most popular lottery, EuroMillions, the winnings are also huge. The biggest jackpot here is €190 million and has been won twice since the lottery was founded in 2004. In 2012, Adrian and Gillian Bayford from the UK became the owners of this amount, and in 2014, a resident of Portugal guessed the winning combination.
Two months before the record
In June 2017, two months before the current record, Powerball hit another massive jackpot of $447.8 million ($279.1 lump sum). The winner bought a ticket in California, in a small store that sells alcohol. The organizers of the lottery decided to encourage sellers who were issued a check for $1 million.
Russian record
Photo: Sergey Kiselev / Kommersant
The largest win in the history of Russian lotteries in May 2017 went to a Sochi resident who bought a Gosloto ticket "6 out of 45". The winning amount was 364.686 million rubles. The record fell on the 2943rd circulation. The previous record win for Russia (358 million) took place in 2016 and was won by a resident of Novosibirsk.
