Envy, threats, betrayal of a loved one, often death - all this can be won in the lottery along with the main prize. "360" remembered the cases when suddenly fallen luck turned into a real nightmare.
The lottery gives its participants a rare chance to become an instant millionaire. You can, of course, receive a huge inheritance, but this option, unlike a lottery ticket, is not available to everyone.
But not a single lottery is complete without losers - millions of people buy tickets, and few win millions of prizes. But winners can also be losers - nothing changes life more dramatically than suddenly falling on the head of wealth.
Missing Happiness
More than a million dollars resident of Thailand Jiravut Pongfan. Having fallen asleep as an ordinary person, he woke up already a millionaire - the ticket he bought the day before turned out to be lucky. Last November, a 42-year-old man won a prize of 42 million baht (about 76 million rubles).
Pongfan was so happy that he decided to "wash" the windfall. The Thai gathered relatives and friends for a festive party, and the next morning he woke up again as an ordinary person - the ticket mysteriously disappeared, and the fabulous winnings disappeared with it.
The man was so shocked that he became depressed and stopped going to work. On January 31, he took his own life, leaving a suicide note with the only request - not to insult his family, because he really won the lottery.
The ticket has not yet been found. According to the Daily Mail, it is not known whether it was stolen or simply disappeared. Who will win the prize in the end is also a mystery. It remains to be hoped that if the prize document is found, it will not turn out to be "damned". Easy millions often destroy, break and change the lives of people who have a chance to hit the jackpot.
RIA Novosti / Maxim Bogodvid
Lost love
A resident of the Canadian city of Chatham was even less lucky than a Thai - her lucky ticket disappeared along with her loved one. Details of the case are given by the Toronto Star newspaper.
Together they bought lottery tickets, guessing that if they won, they would spend the winnings together. Denise Robertson dreamed of her own family nest - a large modern house. And a miracle happened. Last September, her partner Maurice Thibault bought a ticket that netted the couple six million dollars.
Denise: 12 million…2 winners - Chatham and Quebec
Maurice: How nice it would be [to win] . I don't need everything, just a small part
Denise: Oh yes! I'm starting to plan what the new house will look like.
The lovers share the millions won, quote byVice.
Denise did not remember herself from happiness, but not only the main prize, but also her family was divided in two. Returning home the next day, the woman found that Maurice was gone. He collected his personal belongings, took his passport and departed in an unknown direction. The shocked woman was even more shocked when she learned that her ex-lover quit his job via SMS.
The resourceful Canadian sent the boss a photo of the lucky ticket and left for Toronto to collect the winnings. They paid him only half - a broken heart is expensive, the woman decided and sued. In addition to the rest of the prize, she is seeking $500,000 in moral damages. Now the court will have to decide whether the couple was really going to spend the money together. There have already been similar cases - previous joint expenses serve as evidence in the case. Hearings can take 12 to 18 months.
Half a billion for anonymous
The fate of a Thai and a Canadian are just two recent examples of the "Jackpot Curse" - the press is full of stories of slum millionaires who were taken aback by winning huge sums and ended up losing everything. Sometimes "well-wishers" help them - the names of the winners are heard on the air, published on the main pages of news sites, and now petitioners, scammers and outright bandits appear on their doorstep.
Less than three years have passed since the winner of the 2009 lottery was found in a shallow grave in the US state of Florida, who got a jackpot of 30 million dollars. His killer entered into the confidence of the unfortunate and tried to seize the prize, in order to eventually be sentenced to life imprisonment. A similar case was in Illinois, where a man won 20 million and was later killed by his daughter-in-law and her lover. In Georgia, a 42-year-old woman won only five million in 2007, but a year later she was also found stabbed to death - a former boyfriend was accused of murder.
This is just a small fraction of all cases - lottery winners are often killed, cheated and robbed. This is one of the reasons why the owner of the $560 million ticket is demanding a ban on the disclosure of her name, writes the New York Times.
The seventh largest jackpot in US history was won by a New Hampshire woman who immediately sued to keep her identity secret. She doesn’t want to traditionally pose with a huge prize ticket or delete all pages on social networks, as Russian woman Natalya Vlasova had to do - who won half a billion in the Russian Lotto and hit the biggest lottery jackpot in Russian history, the pensioner began to be afraid to leave the house after the collapse she was bombarded with threats and requests for help.
As a lottery winner, Miss Doe is part of a small demographic that has historically suffered from the actions of promiscuous people with life-threatening consequences.
— Quote from the Jane Doe lawsuit.
The American, known only as "Jane Doe", is confident that after handing over the money, she will no longer be able to calmly walk or go to the store without being recognized and pursued by unknown people, not to mention the possibility of robbery or murder. If she manages to achieve anonymity, it will be a truly historic decision, because most of the problems of the previous "lucky ones" were associated with excessive press attention.
Interestingly, the same recipe in a conversation with "360" psychiatrist Vladimir Fainzilberg. According to him, it is better for the owner of the jackpot to “lay low” for some time. At least for the sake of not being tortured by friends and relatives with phone calls and requests. It is difficult to say how effective advice this is, but pensioner Vlasova seems to have followed it. Together with her daughter, she left her native village, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Tuesday.
An article about the biggest lottery wins - about jackpots in the USA, Europe and Russia. The winners themselves and the circumstances of the winnings are described.
The information is current as of early 2013. As more significant wins become available, we will make the necessary changes. In the first part we will talk about world records. The second part is the biggest lottery winnings in Russia. Here we will talk about the winners of the lottery Russian lotto, gosloto, sprotloto and other Russian lotteries.
Many of the examples below prove that it is certainly not easy to win a fabulous amount, but it is quite possible.
First, let's look at the statistics of the largest jackpots in the world. Although the vast majority of winnings came from tickets purchased directly, the number of large winnings from bets made via the Internet is growing. Read more in the online lottery article.
The biggest win in Europe was 185 million euros and took place on July 12, 2011. The winning ticket was purchased in Scotland. Note that this was a Euromillions ticket.
The biggest jackpot in Australia on November 6, 2012 was shared by four winners. The amount won in OZ lotto was A$112 million.
On December 31, 2010, fortune smiled on four players in the Brazilian Mega-Sena lottery who won 195 million reais. This is the largest win in Latin America to date.
741 million pesos- that's how much was the largest lottery jackpot in Asia. On November 29, 2010, it was drawn in the Philippine lottery Grand Lotto 6/55.
Biggest wins in the USA
It is known that the largest jackpots on the planet are played in the USA. Below we present the biggest winnings in the Mega Millions and Powerball lotteries and other American lotteries:
A man named Juan Rodriguez who lives in the USA. An immigrant from Colombia, as of 2004, he has not been very successful in achieving the American Dream. Working as a parking lot guard, he earned little and was on the verge of financial ruin. He bought a lottery ticket for the last dollar, and this ticket brought him one hundred forty nine million dollars to the Mega Millions lottery.
However, his history of winning the lottery remained without a happy end. Read more.
And again megamillions. In 2006, a Virginian resident bought a lottery ticket for a challenge he received from filling up his car. This acquisition made him richer in two hundred thirty million dollars. The gas station where the winning ticket was sold was also awarded.
On January 24, 2008, James Wilson, an 84-year-old retired World War II veteran from Missouri, purchased a Powerball lottery ticket. As the hour passed, he became richer on two hundred fifty four million dollars. As a family man, he gave most of the money to his children.
two hundred nine million- just such a jackpot was hit by a resident of Massachusetts in 2004.
Andrew Jackson Whittaker, a resident of West Virginia, gained notoriety by winning the biggest jackpot to date in late 2002. And although Jack, as he is also called, was a wealthy man and was engaged in the construction business, he was incredibly surprised by such a gift of fate.
The gain was almost 315 million. By opting for a lump sum and paying taxes, he ended up with approximately $114 million in cash.
However, in the future, fate presented him with many unpleasant surprises. Read about it in the article lucky - losers.
In 2005 in Oregon, members of the same family - Bob and Francis Cheney, their daughter - Caroline West and her husband - Steve won about three hundred forty million dollars, becoming the owners of the second largest at that time. In total, the couples spent $40 on lottery tickets. Tickets were bought by 68-year-old Francis Cheney. After winning, she admitted that she was frightened by such an incredible amount. Her husband, on the contrary, was very optimistic about the huge win. Among other things, he planned to purchase a yellow Hummer.
On May 9, 200, two residents of the United States were lucky to hit the jackpot in three hundred sixty million dollars to the Big Game lottery (this is the predecessor of mega millions - the renaming took place in 2002). Since both winners decided to receive the entire winnings in full, then, after taxes, each received ninety million dollars. In an interview, one of them, Larry Ross, said that he had never been particularly fond of lotteries. He had the winning ticket because the hot dog vendor didn't have change from a hundred dollars, and Larry had to take it with lottery tickets.
The following example shows that not only singles are lucky. In Lincoln, Nebraska, eight workers from the local meatpacking plant regularly purchased Powerball tickets. In 2006, luck smiled at them. One of the biggest jackpots - three hundred sixty five million dollars got it to them. In general, playing the lottery together is a fairly common phenomenon in the world. However, there are rules here too. Please see the lottery tips article. Perhaps the information given in it will seem banal to you, but still it will not be superfluous.
Also, if we talk about playing the lottery together, then one cannot help but recall the so-called lottery syndicates. In short, a syndicate is an association of players that increases the probability of winning for each participant, however, the winnings are distributed among all participants. Read more in the article lottery syndicates.
One of the biggest winnings in the mega million lottery - three hundred ninety million dollars was drawn on the night of March 7, 2007. I must say that at that time it was the largest jackpot in the world, which caused a huge stir. Large queues lined up in front of points of sale and terminals.
In the end, we won two tickets. One of them was purchased at a grocery store in a small town in Georgia by truck driver Ed Nybors. The second was bought by Helen and Harold Mesner, a resident of New Jersey.
On November 28, 2012, the third largest lottery prize to date was won - $580 million. Won 2 tickets - one from Missouri and the second from Arizona. The Missouri Powerball lottery winners are Mark and Cindy Hill. Recently, this couple had financial difficulties. Cindy was an office manager but lost her job in 2010. Mark worked in a factory.
The couple have three adult children and a 6-year-old adopted daughter from China.
Third largest jackpot five hundred ninety million dollars May 18, 2013 was drawn in the Powerball lottery. The winner, 84-year-old Gloria McKenzie from Florida, bought her ticket at a supermarket. “The man in front of me in line for tickets let me go ahead. Perhaps this is why I was lucky,” Mackenzie said.
She learned that she had won their television broadcast, but did not immediately turn to the organizers of the lottery for a prize, first consulted with lawyers. Like many other lucky ones, she chose to receive all the amounts at once, and received three hundred and ninety million dollars. At the moment, this is the largest amount received by one person.
Two lucky winners - one from California, the other from Georgia - shared the second largest lottery jackpot in history - six hundred forty-eight million dollars. The Mega Millions lottery draw was held on December 17, 2013.
The name of the lucky winner is Steve Tran. He often bought lottery tickets, and finally luck smiled at him. By profession, Steve is a truck driver. A ticket containing a winning combination - 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and a bonus number - 7 he bought in the city of San Jose, while on vacation there with his family. It should also be noted that in the United States there is a practice when the organizers of the lottery also reward the distribution point - in this case, the gift shop received a million dollars.
At the first place - record jackpot of $640 million. Once again, the MegaMillions lottery set a record. This happened in 2012. Won three tickets in three different cities - Red Bud, Baltimore and one of the cities in the state.
This concludes the history of winnings in the American lotteries and now let's talk about the biggest wins we have.
Biggest lottery win in Russia
In March 2009, a resident of Kolpino (a suburb of St. Petersburg) Albert Begrakyanwon the gosloto lottery jackpot 6 out of 45. The winnings amounted to approx. one hundred million rubles. And today it is the largest jackpot in the history of Russian lotteries.
Albert Begrakyan with his wife and children came from Armenia to Russia in 2001. Fate has not always been so kind to him. At first, he got a job as a security guard, then opened a store, after a while he became the head of a car service. But Albert always believed in his luck, and therefore periodically purchased lottery tickets.
He disposed of the amount received as follows: he invested 30 million rubles in the construction of his own hotel in the Krasnodar Territory, acquired several apartments in St. Petersburg, as well as cars for himself and his relatives. I just spent part of it - on travel and other pleasant little things.
Even at the end of 2013, this is the biggest jackpot in Russia.
On June 1, 2013, in the 585th draw of the State Loto 6 out of 45, two players guessed all six numbers. The first one made a detailed bet, and according to a receipt worth 3,780 rubles, he won 61 518 163 rubles. He bought his ticket at a cell phone shop. The second - a resident of the Krasnodar Territory - also played with a detailed bet. According to the receipt bought for 1,260 rubles, he managed to win 60 917 821 rubles.
In May 2009, a jackpot of 35 million rubles was won by Muscovite Yevgeny Sidorov. The winning combination is 27,8,31,22,4,7.
Fifty-year-old Evgeny has been playing lotteries since Soviet times for many years. He invested the winnings in the agricultural business.
In 2001, a resident of Ufa, Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova, became the owner of almost twenty nine million rubles. She hit the Bingo lottery jackpot. However, this win did not become happy for her. Read about her misadventures in the article lucky - losers.
April 7, 2013 in the 1232nd draw of the state lotto 5 out of 36 prize size eighteen million eight hundred fifty thousand rubles was received by a player who bought a ticket via the Internet.
In the 1253rd draw of the state lotto 5 out of 36, which took place on May 8, 2013, he won a ticket bought in Moscow. The winning combination consisted of the following numbers: 5,7,10,17,20. Sum - fourteen million rubles.
Russian Railways, a monopoly in the rail transportation market, also organized its own lottery. To participate, you need to pay an additional one hundred rubles. And then the train ticket will also become a lottery ticket. In the summer of 2012, a prize was drawn - 11.5 million rubles. The winner was a businessman from Stavropol. And the amount he won is the largest in the history of the Russian Railways lottery. Lucky chose not to reveal his name.
On June 2, 2013, for the first time in the recent history of "Sportloto 6 out of 49", one of the participants in the 23113th draw won a super prize. He guessed all 6 numbers and got 10 million rubles.
Unfortunately, the winners of the Russian Lotto lottery are not presented in this article, since the authors do not have any reliable information about them.
At the end of 2017, Voronezh pensioner Natalya Vlasova won half a billion rubles in the lottery. Congratulations to the lucky woman in the media have become an excellent advertisement for the lottery company. Under one New Year's draw, she collected over 2 billion rubles from the population. We decided to find out if it is possible to win the lottery. And is it worth it to buy tickets in the hope of good luck. In short, it makes no sense.
1. NO OVERSIGHT AND CONTROL
The Stoloto company occupies more than 90% of the Russian lottery market. Monopolist. All the most famous drawings go to the cashier of this particular company. Her slogans are painfully simple: “We win with us” and “State lotteries”. But few people know that a private office operates under the brand of the state. According to the Kontur.Focus system, it is owned by entrepreneur Vagan Gevorkyan.
People trust the state. They believe that it will not deceive, but a private company uses it,” says video blogger Alexander Dvizhnov, whose video “Exposure of Stoloto is a state-scale scam” gained 1.5 million views on YouTube.
There is no cheating here. As explained in the Ministry of Finance, according to the law "On Lotteries", only state lotteries can be held in Russia. Stoloto is a distributor. And 5% of the proceeds of all the lotteries it conducts really go to finance sports, that is, for state purposes. But this is only 5%. And for some reason, these pennies do not go directly to the budget, but to private companies (more on this in the next part of our investigation).
The Ministry of Finance issues licenses for this type of activity. But control is weak. There are still establishments in Russia that pretend to be lottery clubs. Monitors with screens hang there, cherries and monkeys jump on them. These are the same slot machines that were banned many years ago, - says Pavel Sychev, a member of the council under the chairman of the Federation Council for interaction with civil society institutions.
Stoloto did not respond to repeated requests.
2. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The lottery business is the same all over the world. The company collects 100 rubles from the population. Of these, 50 rubles. goes to wins, and the remaining 50 rubles. - to the cash desk of the organizer. From this money, he covers current expenses (advertising, rent of offices and studios, staff salaries, taxes, etc.) and receives a net profit.
The lottery (like the financial pyramid, by the way) needs to give part of the profits to the participants. Otherwise they won't play. According to the official financial statements for 2016, Stoloto Trading House received a revenue of 10 billion rubles, and a net profit of 560 million rubles. But what share of the remaining more than 9 billion rubles. went to the maintenance of the structure itself - is unknown.
At the same time, it is impossible to check how much money is given to the winners. There are many scandals. A couple of years ago, Yevgeny Lapyrev, a resident of the Trans-Baikal Territory, was denied payment of a winnings of almost 6 million rubles. The company said it was a "technical error". Lapyrev appealed to the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but did not get the truth.
In Russia, in fact, only one company is engaged in lotteries. She can do anything. Business is not transparent, - says Igor Kolpakov, creator of the Lokhotrona.net portal. - There should be more large companies in the lottery business. Then there will be competition. And less incentive to cheat.
3. THE THEORY OF LARGE NUMBERS AGAINST BIG MONEY
Talk to any mathematician. Playing the lottery is a losing strategy. This proves the experience of avid players. Conditionally: they spent 100 thousand rubles on tickets, and won a total of no more than 50 thousand rubles. The theory of large numbers is rarely wrong.
In fact, the real percentage is even lower. Not all operators honestly use the agreed percentage of the collected money for winnings. And without big wins, it is impossible to recoup many years of “investment” in lottery tickets. The chance of winning the jackpot is one in a million.
I would advise not to look for dashing luck in lottery clubs. And spend money on something useful, - says Pavel Sychev.
AND AT THIS TIME
Where is half a billion?
A gain of 506 million rubles. Stoloto promised to pay Natalya Vlasova from the village of Panino, Voronezh region, after the New Year holidays. But whether the money was paid and how much is unknown. According to her daughter, some amounts began to arrive. But she didn't say how much. In the Stoloto company itself, they did not give an answer to the question of paying the winnings to Vlasova. All this looks strange: if the organizer of the lottery fulfills its obligations, then why hide it? By the way, on the eve of another lucky person - from Nizhny Novgorod - for the first time this year hit the jackpot in "6 out of 45" for 267.5 million rubles. "
BY THE WAY
Online draws are thimbles
It is not clear who allowed Stoloto to conduct online lotteries (there is no mention of this in the law), but you can participate in virtual drawings on their website. They pass almost every five minutes. Winning is determined by a random number generator.
If the process takes place only in electronic format, you should not hope for big wins and honesty of the organizers. Reminds me of thimbles games from the 90s, says Pavel Sychev. - We have too sad experience. If the electronic machine is programmed by the state controller, this is one thing. And if a private company - only the owner wins.
REFERENCE:
The lottery operator Stoloto owns more than 90% of the market. Namely: Gosloto 7 out of 49, Gosloto 6 out of 45, Gosloto 5 out of 36, Top 3, Rapido, 12/24, KENO-Sportloto, Prikup lotteries , "Duel", "Sportloto 6 out of 49", "Russian Lotto", "Housing Lottery", "Golden Horseshoe", "6 out of 36", "Gosloto 4 out of 20".
JOKE ON THE TOPIC
A man bought a dead donkey for 1 ruble and played the lottery. Sold 200 tickets for the ruble, determined the winner. And he presented: they say, the donkey is dead ...
So let me give you back the money for the ticket, - the man was not at a loss.
On that they agreed.
Moral: the man out of the blue cut down a lot of money. Everyone is happy, even the one who won the dead donkey. And those who were deceived did not even know about the deception. They just thought they were unlucky.
Recently it became known that a resident of Voronezh became the owner by hitting the jackpot in the 1204th draw of the Russian Lotto lottery. The Voronezh resident bought a ticket at one of the retail outlets in his city. In order to receive the funds won, he must provide all the necessary documents to the company's Moscow office - after taxes, the amount received on hand will be about 440 million rubles.
However, psychologists advise not to rush into spending such a huge amount, since winning the lottery is a big test for a person. This was stated, in particular, by Vladimir Fainzilberg, associate professor at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis. According to the expert, now "there will be a lot of people who want to share this triumph with him."
The psychotherapist of a well-known clinic in St. Petersburg, Evgenia Bratysheva, in an interview with URA.RU, noted that a person’s desire to participate in the lottery is “waiting for a miracle.” According to the doctor, this indicates a person's unwillingness to take responsibility.
I want to achieve something quickly. In psychotherapy, you often encounter a similar desire - no one wants to take responsibility for themselves. Perhaps this is the reason. Then the mass character: someone alone received the money, which means I can too. I believe that quite infantile people are included in such events, ”-
the doctor said.
According to her, several generations of people have grown up in our country, faced with numerous prohibitions from the state, in connection with this, a desire to shift responsibility appeared.
However, Bratysheva also advised the lucky man not to rush.
My advice is to stop and think: “What do I want?”
Zoya Gafarova, marketing and sales director of the Stoloto trading house, said that, according to the law, if a person wants to, he can remain incognito.
To date, no one has contacted us. We just know that the winning ticket is in Voronezh,”
she said.
According to Gafarova, the payment will be made within 45 days after the winner contacts the company.
Recall that the previous winning record was set in May 2017. Then a resident of Sochi won the lottery "6 out of 45" 364 million 685 thousand 787 rubles. The identity of the lucky winner is still a mystery. Meanwhile, in Russia there were several cases when people won large sums in the lottery and the whole country found out about their fate.
So, in 2001, an unemployed family from Ufa became the lucky ones. Nadezhda and Rustem Mukhametzyanov hit the jackpot on the Bingo Show lottery in the amount of 29 million rubles. After receiving the money, the man and woman became recluses and began to drink heavily.
In the photo: Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova was one of the first in Russia to win a multi-million dollar lottery
The couple spent part of the amount won on two apartments in the city center. The rest of the money was disposed of, according to the neighbors, somehow, thoughtlessly: they gave loans, paid loans for friends and acquaintances. Five years later, the family was in poverty.
In an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova admitted that winning the lottery did not bring her happiness and it would be better if they did not win anything. In 2006, Nadezhda died in complete poverty.
35 million rubles in the spring of 2009, Evgeny Sidorov, a 51-year-old locksmith from Moscow, won. The newly-made millionaire left with his family for a small homeland - in the Lipetsk region. The man managed the money wisely. In his native village, he built a new house, repaired the road and started a small carp farm.
In August 2013, the 42-year-old live in Voronezh won in Stoloto 47 368 520 rubles. The man distributed most of the amount to relatives and best friends, and used the rest to repair the apartment and household expenses. The man said that he did not lose hope once again hit the big jackpot.
In 2009, 36-year-old resident of the Leningrad region Albert Begrakyan won the lottery 100 million rubles. Before buying a ticket with a win, the man had trading stalls and lived with his family in a rented apartment. After winning, Albert bought himself several apartments in the center of St. Petersburg and an expensive Lexus car. The man also purchased a land plot in the Krasnodar Territory for the construction of a hotel. Albert lent about 12 million rubles to acquaintances and friends. But two years later, nothing was left of the money, and Albert even had debts of 4.5 million rubles due to the fact that he did not pay in full the tax on the amount won - 13 million. The man said that if he won the money again, he would take his family and go to live in the United States.
In February 2014, Valeriy, a 48-year-old builder from Omsk, won 184 513 512 rubles at Gosloto. For several days, the man did not get in touch with the organizers: he was so shocked by the news of the win that he locked himself at home and did not communicate with anyone for three days. Valery asked not to tell anyone his last name. The lucky person planned to spend the winnings on moving and buying a new house.
Winner of the 202 441 116 rubles became a 45-year-old man from Nizhny Novgorod Mikhail, this happened in the fall of 2014. The man applied for a win after a couple of months, and after that he began to hide from the organizers. According to him, Mikhail did not tell even his relatives about his winnings.
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.
