The biggest lottery wins in Russia: a list and interesting facts. From a scavenger to riches... And back to a scavenger

08.02.2019

So let's start.

All over the world, lotteries give birth to new millionaires every week. But what does it really mean to wake up one day with as much money as you can imagine?

Almost all of us have dreamed of winning a big prize in the lottery. We dreamed about what we would do with this money, but we never thought that this money could do something with us!

The life of most of us is very much determined by the next circle of events - work, home, friends, hobbies and sports, which make up our world. This world belongs to us, and we feel at home in it. Suddenly, the money that has fallen on us dramatically changes everything in our lives.

For example, a lot of people like the idea of ​​not working. But lottery winners find a life without a job devoid of purpose for each day, as well as the meaning of waking up early in the morning. Of course, it is tempting to buy a cottage in a prestigious area, but if this happens, you immediately lose old friends and your usual way of life.

Usually lottery winners are advised not to publish their addresses and phone numbers, but they are still found by letters and requests from charities and just wanting to get other people's money. The negligence of the winners leads them to spend serious money on lawyers to protect themselves from demanding relatives, on security guards to protect their home and swimming pool, and on a psychoanalyst to protect their sanity.

Winners who lost everything

There are many stories about people who have not learned how to be rich. In 1999, Abby Wilson from Brixton (a London area) won £7,000,000, but it brought her nothing but misery. It took her only four years to mindlessly spend all this money. During this time, she changed five husbands. Now she's single and without a penny of money. “I am a miserable person,” she says. “Winning this money was the most terrible event of my life.”

Then there was the story of William Church, a 37-year-old chef from Blackpool. He won in national lottery£3,600,000, but his bet was unlucky. Three weeks after winning, he died of a heart attack, unable to withstand the continuous harassment from annoying journalists, the public and relatives, who, with their requests to borrow money, brought him to the grave.

Winners Who Lived

For some people, the easiest task is to get rid of the wealth that has washed over them as quickly as possible. Jim Taylor, a sailor from Scotland who won £2,000,000, spent the money in 77 days. Every day he withdrew thousands of pounds from the bank and handed them out right on the street to his former colleagues and just strangers. One day he gave away £150,000 to the homeless in a Glasgow park. Later, he will say that he does not regret the money given out in the slightest.

Anita Cotton was the biggest lottery winner in her day with her £12,000,000 winnings. It took her many years to get used to her new life. “Without the support of my family, I would not have been able to cope with this wealth,” she says. “There were a lot of lies about me in the press. They said that I left my husband and children, bought an island in the Indian Ocean and took drugs. All this is a lie." She shared her winnings with her relatives.

Conclusion

When is the next time you buy lottery ticket stop for a minute and ask yourself: why are you doing this? Do you really want to win? Or do you want to feel the excitement of the thought of winning?

Three lottery stories March 19th, 2018

The text below is taken from the Zen channel "Don't Boil the Pot" (original article " Who wins the lottery in Russia"). I don't know if the truth is told there or not, but in general it doesn't matter. Another nuance of the article is more interesting:

Lottery organizers usually do not face their target audience directly. Well, that is - there is a turnover, billions are spinning, but how and from whom they are collected - history is silent about this. Meanwhile, most of the participants Russian lottery- these are poor pensioners and others like them. So the ad image: a happy family who buys a ticket for 100 rubles and wins an apartment - is extremely far from reality. And behind this discrepancy there are many things: the motives for the purchase, the size of the winnings, the frequency of the draws. All these parameters, as presented by Stoloto, are not particularly interesting for people with above-average incomes. That's why the number of players does not increase

There is another version, more cynical. Lottery players are well aware of the audience that is with them now. And just squeeze it to the maximum. At least those who are poor are more receptive and greedy for those stale goodies that Gosloto offers

My colleague Lisa works as a copywriter for the state lottery. Tells terrible things - people win huge money.

Grandmother

A hunched old woman from a Ural village came to the Moscow office state lottery for the win. She is entitled to almost two million rubles, but she does not believe that she will receive anything. She came to the office with a small cart, to which an old bag was tied with ropes. In the bag, the most valuable and expensive thing that was in her crumbling hut is an old icon of tsarist times, which she inherited from her grandmother. And also pies from the oven, which she carried for several days. The pies, of course, were stale, but no one in the office refused to try them.

The postman, an elderly woman, advised her grandmother to buy the winning ticket. My grandmother has a pension of nine thousand, she has no relatives, and domestic problems the whole sea. But the main thing is that the roof is leaking so that the ceiling has already begun to rot. It's scary that it will fall. There won’t be enough money from the pension for repairs, and you can’t take a loan, because it’s too old - it will suddenly die. So I bought a ticket, although I never believed in the state, or in lotteries, or in luck. The postman warned - I will try only once, do not offer again.

The postman also told her that she had won. And she helped to get ready for Moscow.

Grandma doesn't know what to do with money. At first she did not believe that she had won, and now she does not want this money. She says that she would take quite a bit, just to repair the roof, and leave the rest here. Divide among yourselves, he says.

Grandma doesn't want to go back. In the village, everyone probably already knows that she became a millionaire - the postwoman disheveled. Grandma wanted her to have a new roof, and now she won't have peace.

Lisa:Our job is to tell the stories of those who won on the lottery website. writing people there are two people in the department, and those who take big winnings are five people a day. Many cry, do not believe that they have won, like this grandmother. To somehow calm them down, talk and give festive mood we're pouring champagne. In any case, it is necessary to talk with everyone, even if they do not want to be written about them. It happens that a person drinks, changes his mind and gives an interview. Most often, those who did not want to talk, but, after drinking, decided to speak more and longer than the others. They are the hardest to interrupt.

There are more elderly people. They realize that they are entitled to a large sum only when we convince them of this. And it seems to them that we are involved in this win, so many offer part of the money or some kind of gifts. Naturally, we cannot agree.

Max

I have two or three interviews a day. They need to be written down, comprehended, deciphered, and made into a story. Moreover, our editor has a jump on literary, she calls these texts "stories" and wants us to give them the appropriate form. So that there is dramaturgy, plot, plot, denouement, climax.

I write for a long time, because it is difficult for me at first to go through real story person, and then tell their own, fictional, version. So it turns out that I took two interviews in a day, wrote one text, and received edits on the day before yesterday's story. And I always have a lot of unfinished work and a feeling that there is still a lot of work in the queue. This feeling does not let go even on weekends. I'm always on edge.

Ryabinins

The Ryabinins were given a lucky ticket for the wedding. She is in her forties, he is nine years older. Her second marriage, his third. Have no children.

They signed modestly, without fanfare, and celebrated in the apartment with close friends, who at this age are not many at all. His colleague from work read a congratulation in verse, and then handed over an envelope with a small amount and a separate lottery sheet. Somehow she joked about the fact that there is not much money, but if the ticket turns out to be winning, then you can not share it with her. Laugh and forget. The next day, during cleaning, the ticket was shoved somewhere in a long box and no longer remembered about it.

The marriage did not work out. After a couple of months, the Ryabinins realized that their union, like the previous ones, turned out to be defective. They twitched for another month, and then quietly and peacefully decided to disperse. No scandals, no screams, no broken dishes. She left for a week on vacation, and during this time he promised to pack up and return to his place.

The ticket was found on a bookshelf where no one had ever looked. He lay at the very top, where they didn’t even wipe the dust. Why he looked there and what he was looking for, he did not know. And having found a donated piece of cardboard, he smiled and decided to check it out. I still didn’t want to leave, I needed an excuse for myself to buy time.

It turned out that the winning ticket. Four million rubles.

He decided to wait for her to decide what to do with the money. The amount for them is not large, especially if divided in half - they seem to have everything, they seem to need nothing.

Seeing him at home on his return, she was surprised. Outwardly, she remained indifferent to the win, but, after thinking a little, she said that this was probably a sign. That they shouldn't be separated. That they should try to fix things. He didn't mind.

The Ryabinins will put the winnings into a savings account and try to have a baby. And when they succeed, they will buy a spacious apartment and make the best nursery in the world.

Lisa:I want to quit. I seem to understand everything - one out of a million wins, and these people can actually be helped by this money. But it's unbearable. Every day I see people coming for huge sums. Their lives change overnight. Someone will be able to no longer work, but live for their own pleasure. Have fun, travel, study, do what you have wanted all your life. I can't help thinking how I would manage that kind of money. And we all live and work here. Staff turnover - people can not stand it. This is very nerve-wracking.

Everyone at work plays these lotteries. And me too. And nobody wins. Statistically, this is unlikely. But time after time, sometimes every day, we buy tickets: online, in a store, in kiosks, anywhere in general. We spend several thousand a month on them and only get poorer. And before our eyes every day ordinary people become millionaires.

Probably, there is no such person who has never experienced luck by playing the lottery in his life. Having bought a ticket for a hundred rubles, everyone becomes a potential millionaire. But luck is a capricious thing, and not everyone has had a chance to win, but to win big prizes- lot of units.

Lotteries are played all over the world. In Russia, only 1-2% of the population participate in lotteries, for comparison: the share of players in France is 70% of the total population of the country, the USA - 63%. Such a small percentage of players in Russia is explained by the distrust of Russians in lotteries. But among these percentages there are also winners who hit large jackpots.

Most of the lucky ones try to remain anonymous and do not tell anyone about their winnings. And this, of course, is correct, because big money attracts many ill-wishers, as well as new and old friends, newly-made relatives. Below are the 7 biggest lottery wins in Russia.

Seventh place. A chidhood dream

On May 29, 2015, a 37-year-old resident of the Kaliningrad region won 126 million rubles in the 6 out of 45 lottery. The winner was fond of lotteries as a child, since when he and his grandfather bought the first tickets for him, he dreamed of becoming famous winner lotteries. According to him, grandfather was very fond of lotteries, and when the drawing of prizes on TV began, everyone in the house fell silent.

The lucky one promised to use his winnings to build a playground for all the children in the area and, of course, for himself - a big house.

Sixth place. The shock of victory

184 million rubles, won in the draw of 735 on February 10, 2014 of the 6 out of 45 lottery, changed the life of one employee of a construction company from Omsk. I spent 800 rubles. He did not leave the house for three days, so he was affected by the shock of winning. The dream of the winner and the father of three children was to buy a big house by the sea in warm regions.

Fifth place. Anonymous Winner

August 2014 and the Gosloto 6 out of 45 lottery brought a prize of 202 million rubles to a 45-year-old resident Nizhny Novgorod, who was shocked by the victory for a month. The victory cost him 700 rubles. In his interviews, he asked to remain anonymous, because at first he did not want to tell anyone about the win. All we know about him is that he is married and has two children.

Fourth place. One hundred rubles ticket

300 million rubles - such a win was waiting for a resident of Novosibirsk in the Gosloto 4 out of 20 lottery on May 30, 2017. His happy ticket cost only 100 rubles on the Stoloto website. Remarkably, the prize of more than 300 million rubles in this lottery was drawn for the first time.

Third place. Doctor not believing in his luck

On February 27, 2016, in the State Lottery 6 out of 45, the doctor from Novosibirsk was lucky, and he won a little more than 358 million rubles. The bet cost him 1800 rubles. For three weeks the winner was going to Moscow to win, all this time it seemed to him a dream. According to the doctor himself, he checked the ticket six times and could not believe his luck, only by calling the call center of the lottery organizer, he was able to verify the victory. The winner himself is not new to lotteries, he has been playing for about 2 years using his winning formula. In an interview with Stoloto, the Novosibirsk man said that he would spend part of the money on charity, as well as on developing his business and on real estate in Moscow.

Second place. Excitement around victory

On May 21, 2017, 364 million rubles were drawn in the 6 out of 45 lottery. The winner was a resident of Sochi, who spent 700 rubles on a bet in mobile application. The newly made millionaire is a worker of culture. Due to the huge excitement that arose around the win, it was customary for the family council to go together for money, but they did not have enough money for tickets, so the winner for a long time did not take the win. According to her, she wanted to contribute a third of the money to the electoral fund of the political party Communist Party.

More recently, it was considered the last big lottery win in Russia. But 2017 is rich in records.

First place. Modest retired millionaire

The biggest lottery win in Russia belongs to a resident Voronezh region, which won a fabulous amount of 506 million rubles in the lottery " Russian loto". Such a large amount was drawn on November 5, 2017 in a draw of 1204, and today is the largest lottery win in the history of Russia.

The organizers of the lottery searched for the 63-year-old winner for 2 weeks, as the lucky woman could not believe in her luck. “Russian Lotto” for the family is the best gift for the holidays,” notes the new millionaire. The Voronezh pensioner said that she would spend this money on helping her children and grandchildren, and also donate part of the money to charity.

Money can not buy happiness

Big lottery wins in Russia and abroad did not bring only happiness to everyone, there are those for whom the win turned out differently.

In 2001, unemployed spouses from Ufa became winners in the Bingo Show lottery and won 29 million rubles. However, the win did not bring happiness. Spouses for 5 years spent the entire prize. But the main misfortune was the death of one of the winners due to alcohol abuse. According to one version, everything was facilitated by new relatives and friends who appeared out of nowhere, who asked for money for their needs and soldered the spouses.

6 out of 45 lottery winner Leningrad region Albert Begrakyan, who won 100 million rubles, after 2 years was left with debts to the state. Albert invested in real estate expensive cars, land for the construction of a hotel, but ended up with a debt of 4 and a half million rubles to the state.

In 2006, an incident happened to one resident of the United States, Abraham Shakespeare, worthy of any crime drama. He had no time to win $ 30 million, as he had a lot of relatives. But the scammers are not left out. Shakespeare was approached by a lady who promised to help him manage his money properly. And she ordered: she transferred all the money to her account, and soon Shakespeare himself was found dead with two bullets in his chest.

Jack Whittaker was a prosperous businessman, family man, and philanthropist until he hit the big jackpot in 2002. Whittaker became addicted to alcohol, gambling, and abandoned his family. Within a few years, his entire fortune was spent, and the business collapsed.

Jackpots in world lotteries

But even the most big wins in the lottery in Russia cannot be compared with the main prizes in the lotteries of the world. Big fans of lotteries are residents of the USA, because the largest jackpots are played on American lotteries, such as Powerball and Mega Millions. So, the largest lottery winnings in the world belong to:

1. On August 24, 2017, an American won over $758 million in the Powerball lottery. This is the most big win this lottery and the lotteries of the world, which fell on one ticket. Interesting feature lotteries in that the prize can be received in installments over 29 years or taken immediately, but then the amount of the winnings will be significantly less (about 2 times).

2. On January 16, 2016, three Americans shared an all-time Powerball lottery win of $1.5 billion. The chance of winning was only 1 in 290 million.

3. In May 2014, a resident of the US state of Florida won the jackpot of the same Powerball lottery, which was 590 million US dollars.

How to win the lottery?

The question of how to win the lottery arises for all players. No certain way victory. Each winner has his own secret of success, but not everyone is ready to share it. Most argue that this is just luck and luck, others follow certain rules:

  • They play with an expanded bet, i.e. choose more numbers than is possible in the normal rate. Of course, the expanded rate provides for more investments, but the chance of winning increases.
  • They participate regularly in lotteries and use the same combination all the time. They are waiting for the selected combination to bring the long-awaited prize.
  • They play with friends, the so-called lottery syndicate. In this case, a group of people buys as much as possible more tickets one lottery, and if they win, they divide everything in half.
  • Various mathematical formulas are used.

There are those who believe in happy Days, numbers, clothes, talismans. They buy tickets, choose numbers that are significant for themselves on the ticket, use various conspiracies to win.

The statistics of large lottery wins in Russia suggests that every year the number of their participants is growing, and so are the winnings. The probability of hitting the jackpot is negligible and depends on the specific lottery. For example, the opportunity to win in the Gosloto 5 out of 36 lottery is approximately 1 to 367 thousand, in the Gosloto 6 out of 45 lottery - 1 to 8 million, in the Russian Lotto - 1 to 7 million.

If this article inspired someone to buy a ticket, remember that the winning percentage is very small, play for fun, maybe you'll get lucky.

A resident of Krasnodar won more than 31 million rubles in the lottery. And last year, a lucky man from the Voronezh region won 506 million rubles, which was the biggest jackpot in the history of Russia.

Here's what we know. This is a resident of the Voronezh region. He bought his ticket in one of the local retail outlets sales. Just imagine how it could be: he came, bought a ticket for the 1204th edition, - the message says.

Psychologists are already advising the newly-made millionaire to be careful.

Huge surprise win serious challenge for the human psyche. A resident of the Voronezh region, who hit the jackpot of 506 million rubles, is better off lying low, experts say.

In their opinion, there will be a lot of people who want to share the triumph with the winner, and most importantly, the amount won.

He will have to fight off all sorts of relatives, petitioners, acquaintances, friends and just those who want to get their share of the pie. And this, of course, requires some kind of psychological stability, and maybe even for some period of time it will be necessary to somehow lie down on the bottom, disappear so that people do not torture him with requests, phone calls and so on, psychologists say.

How the fate of the newly-made millionaire will turn out is unknown, but many previous “lucky ones” quickly found themselves broke after winning.

In 2001, a Ufa family became the winner of the "Bingo Show" draw - it received 29 million rubles. The winners from Ufa chose alcohol as the main item of their expenses. They also constantly gave large sums in debt, helped friends repay loans. As a result, the winnings evaporated in just five years. The "lucky ones" themselves admitted that big money did not bring them happiness.

In 2009, 36-year-old Albert Begrakyan, a resident of the Leningrad Region, won 100 million rubles at Gosloto. He quickly spent all the money: he bought several apartments in the center of St. Petersburg, a Lexus car, a land plot in Krasnodar Territory. The winner shared 12 million with his relatives. The entire amount was not only completely spent in two years, but the "lucky one" still owed the state 4.5 million rubles, since he did not pay the tax in full for his big win. Therefore, now part of Albert's property has been arrested, and he himself has been banned from traveling abroad.

Could not resist the crazy spending and many foreign lottery winners. In 1988, Pennsylvania resident William Post won $16.2 million in the lottery and squandered the entire amount in a few months buying cars and speedboats. After that, he admitted to reporters that he likes being bankrupt much more than a lottery multimillionaire.

In 1993, an immigrant from South Korea Janit Lee, who moved to the US, won $18 million, and eight years later, after giving away most their money political parties, public organizations And educational programs also declared itself bankrupt.

"There is no limit to human greed"

West Virginia businessman Andrew Whittaker won $315 million on Christmas Day 2002. After taxes, he received $114 million. However, just four years later, he was effectively penniless. His generosity, claims from applicants for his money, as well as alcoholism are to blame for this. But even this is not the main thing: his daughter, who also had a test of money, was found dead in her father's house. The cause of death was a drug overdose. This happened just two years after the win, and in 2009, another daughter of the winner was found dead.

Since I won the lottery, I realized that there is no limit to human greed, the winner himself said years later. - Now I know: if a person has something, then there will definitely be someone who wants to take it away. It is a pity that I did not tear up this ticket then.

Wherever I went, these people were everywhere, - Andrew recalled. “For example, I go to a basketball game, and during the game, one hundred people after another come up to me to ask for money, trying to pity me because they are poor or have sick relatives.”

Never give anyone money just like that, - Andrew shared his experience. Because the more you give, the more they want to get from you. Give money once - and everyone around you will consider you a rag and pounce on you like a flock of jackals.

Breaking Bad

Billy Bob Harrell Jr. from Texas hit the $31 million jackpot in 1997. With the winnings, he bought houses and cars for all his relatives, and made charitable donations. But in the following months, the shopping process turned into bad habit. Billy bought another house, after - an even larger house, two more cars. The lucky man was left without money in less than two years. lottery win caused Billy financial stress. And in the end, the man committed suicide.

American 55-year-old businessman Jack Whittaker won $315 million. He was offered to take the jackpot with the entire amount that would have been paid to him over the years, or an amount three times less, but with the ability to spend it immediately. Jack chose the second option. He spent almost 10% of the money on the construction of churches, opened his own charitable foundation, which helped poor families. The man even thanked the woman from whom he bought winning ticket: gave her a mansion, a car and gave out 50 thousand dollars.

Then he got carried away gambling, and once a large casino filed a lawsuit against him, because he owed a large sum. He began to apply to the bottle, left the family. Many wanted to cash in on him, so Jack was constantly accused of sexual harassment then in attempted murder.

As a result, his business failed, the fund closed, he spent or gave away all the money he won, and his beloved granddaughter was found dead.



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