The name of the millionaire of the New Year’s «Russian Lotto» drawing from Crimea has become known

On January 1, 2026, the main lottery draw of the Russian Lotto, “New Year’s Billion,” took place. As a result of the drawing, the main prize in the amount of 1 billion rubles was shared for the first time by three participants: two won 333,333,333 rubles each, and another 333,333,833 rubles — he won an additional 500 rubles in subsequent rounds of the drawing. The country also has one winner of a prize of 100 million rubles and 98 new lottery millionaires. One of the millionaire winners was a resident of the Republic of Crimea, Zinaida O.* A donated lottery ticket for the 1707th draw brought her family a winnings of 1,000,000 rubles.

For the festive draw of the Russian Lotto, we were given an envelope with six lottery tickets. On the evening of January 1, my husband and I decided to check the results of the drawing. When we saw the million, we were pleasantly shocked, we checked everything several times and rewatched the broadcast of the draw“, says the winner with a smile.

Zinaida works as an auto parts sales manager. The family lives near the sea and loves spending time in nature. The couple decided to use the winnings to repay the loan they took out to purchase a car.

It should be noted that in the Republic of Crimea, 144,410 “New Year’s Billion” 2026 tickets from the “Russian Lotto” were purchased, which later turned out to be winning ones. In total, on January 1, 2026, residents of the region won 31,800,380 rubles. At the same time, two lucky winners from the Republic of Crimea became winners of 1 million rubles each, including Zinaida.

In total, according to the results of the “New Year Billion” 2026, 14,748,754 tickets became winning tickets, and a total of 4,247,063,723 rubles were drawn in the holiday draw — this is a new absolute record for the total amount of winnings in one draw among Russian state lotteries. In addition to three multimillionaires from the Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk and Tyumen regions, who equally divided the prize of 1 billion rubles, the country now has the winner of a prize of 100 million rubles from the Lipetsk region and another 98 lottery millionaires from various parts of the country. Another 78 lucky players closed all 30 numbers simultaneously on the 65th move and divided the remaining 2 million prizes among themselves. Each of them became the owner of 25,641 rubles.

*Photo is published with the permission of the winner. At the request of the winner, her last name is not published.

source: Stoloto press service

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