how a family from Voronezh won 2 million rubles in the Russian Lotto and what they will spend the winnings on

Voronezh. 04/25/2024. ABIREG.RU – Gossip Chronicle – “Russian Lotto” is a unique lottery invented in Russia: it does not use a lottery machine, and the presenter traditionally takes barrels with numbers from a bag. This year the lottery turns 30 years old. Russians associate it with the childhood board game “Loto”. And today people not only participate, but also win with their entire families.

There are many stories about such victories in the Russian Lotto: for example, in the New Year’s draw of the Russian Lotto in 2021, the Belavin family won 1,000,000 rubles, and in 2020, the Genzeruk family won a country house. This year, Irina Maksimenko and her daughter Olga from Voronezh started such a family tradition; they were lucky enough to win 2,000,000 rubles in the 1527th draw of the Russian Lotto.

In the family of Irina and Olga, the main fan of state lotteries from Stoloto is their grandmother. It was she who encouraged her daughter and granddaughter to take part in the Russian Lotto lottery for the first time for the New Year. Then Irina and Olga bought three tickets. There was no big win there, and they decided to try their luck again. Irina purposefully went to the Stoloto brand store and purchased three tickets for the next 1527th draw, choosing them at random. On Sunday morning she watched the drawing on TV in the program “They are winning!”

“When I crossed out all the numbers in the playing fields of the ticket, I didn’t believe it! I called Olya so that she could check the ticket later on the Stoloto website,” says Irina. “To be honest, we were convinced that we had won only when we arrived at the Moscow Stoloto lottery center for registration.”

The Maksimenko family will spend part of the money to fully repay the mortgage loan for the apartment, and put the rest of the money aside as savings.

“I can say to myself that I am lucky. What I want, I achieve either through my own means or through forces from above. The most important thing is to want!” – says Olga.

Olga is on maternity leave, before that she worked at a bank, in the personnel selection department. Irina works as an operator at the post office. Irina devotes most of her free time to her little granddaughter. The winner’s long-time hobby is knitting. In her free time, she knits clothes and accessories for the baby.

Let us remember that lotteries have traditionally acted as a form of charity. The history of charitable church-state lotteries in Russia dates back to the 19th century and is an example of the conciliarity of the Russian people, Church and state. Today, Stoloto systematically supports more than 25 charity, sponsorship and sports projects from its own funds. The main areas of Stoloto’s charitable activities include helping children, helping elderly citizens and people with disabilities. Thus, each participant in the circulation also has the opportunity to contribute to good deeds. After all, the Russian Lotto charity Easter draw will take place very soon, following which 10 rubles from each ticket sold will be donated to charitable causes. By the way, following the results of the charitable Easter drawing of the “Russian Lotto” in 2023, 58,615,760 rubles were sent to the Regional public organization for supporting the social activities of the Russian Orthodox Church “Mercy”. From these funds, assistance was provided to a number of socially significant projects throughout the country. This, for example, is co-financing the completion of construction work and the opening of the first church House for Mom on Vyatka, financing the rehabilitation center for drug addicts “Salvation Island” on Sakhalin, the purchase of a minibus for transporting teams of doctors and nurses of the St. Alexis Hospital, etc.

VGL 4 Sports, algorithm for determining winnings No. 3 (“Russian Lotto”), the lottery period is until December 31, 2029. With information about the organizer of the lottery, the rules of its conduct, the prize fund of the lottery, the number of prizes or winnings, timing, place and procedure receipt of prizes or winnings can be found on the website.

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