The New Year started off great: a billion rubles from the Russian Lotto were won by the family of a speech therapist and a turner

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The winners of the New Year’s draw of the Russian Lotto, which took place on January 1, 2024 live on NTV, were Svetlana and Yuri Semenov*, a speech therapist and turner from Tyumen.

In December 2023, Yuri Semenov bought several gift sets for the New Year’s Billion circulation from Russian Lotto. As a New Year’s gift, he gave one of the tubes with tickets to his wife Svetlana with the words: “We will divide the winnings equally.” At that moment, the man could not even imagine that on January 1, 2024, he and his wife would win 1,000,000,150 rubles. Almost two weeks after the New Year’s draw, on January 12, the winners came to the Stoloto lottery center in Moscow to register their fabulous winnings, provided the winning printed ticket, went through the legally required identification and told their story of victory.

Years of hard work and life hand in hand

We don’t consider ourselves lucky in life. They always worked to benefit society, themselves and their children. We never got anything just like that. I worked several jobs at the same time, and my husband earned money through hard physical labor.— said Svetlana Semenova.

Svetlana is a speech pathologist with many years of experience, and her husband Yuri is a turner by profession. They moved north about 30 years ago. Everything in life was not easy for them. They achieved everything through hard work. The spouses overcame all life’s difficulties together, holding hand in hand. Svetlana and Yuri have been married for 40 years and will soon celebrate their ruby ​​wedding. The couple was even awarded the “Family of the Year” award in honor of the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity.

New Year’s surprise for my wife: a billion in a tube

The Semenovs live modestly and are not accustomed to publicity, so they delegated further communication with the media to the Stoloto press service, giving consent to the publication of their names, photographs and winning history. In this way, the winners want to protect themselves as much as possible from personal communication with the press and excessive attention from strangers. The winners need time to realize what happened, because they have never dealt with such an impressive amount of money and media attention before.

Nevertheless, the Semenovs considered it fair and important to share their story of victory, because many participants were interested in who became the owner of the “New Year’s Billion”.

We are not particularly superstitious, but sometimes in the morning I listen to the advice of astrologers and retell them to Yura. Overall, the horoscope promised that 2024 would open up new opportunities for me and be financially prosperous. When my husband gave me a tube on the occasion of the holiday, I was not particularly enthusiastic about the gift. We celebrated the New Year together. As the chimes struck, we made wishes for the well-being of our family and loved ones. On January 1, they turned on the drawing on TV and started checking tickets— said Svetlana.

When the presenter announced: “Stop the game. A billion has been raffled off!”, and later the number of the lucky ticket appeared in the ticker, the couple looked at each other and realized that the coveted ticket was in their hands. Having comprehended the situation, the winners began to collect the package of documents necessary for registration, bought air tickets to Moscow for a convenient date for them, January 12, and came to the Stoloto lottery center to process their winnings.

Plans for housing, health and business

According to Russian legislation, winnings from lotteries are paid no later than 180 days from the date of claiming the winnings. The amount that the winners of the “New Year’s Billion” will receive, minus tax, will be 850,100,128 rubles, since the tax on winnings in the amount of 1,000,000,150 rubles will be 149,900,023 rubles. This amount consists of 650,000 rubles (13% of 5,000,000 rubles) and 149,250,023 rubles (15% of 995,000,150 rubles), since from January 1, 2021, a rate of 15 applies to winnings exceeding 5,000,000 rubles %.

At the same time, the Semenovs have already matured plans on how to spend part of the winnings. Money has never come easily to them, so they know exactly what it is worth and will spend it rationally.

First of all, I would like to buy spacious housing in Tyumen. We will definitely share the money with the children. Let’s improve our health. Perhaps in the future I will open my own speech therapy office to help children with speech disorders. On the occasion of a ruby ​​wedding, I will treat myself with ruby ​​jewelry— said Svetlana.

The winner considers the profession of a speech therapist-defectologist to be her calling. She spends a lot of time reading professional literature and studying new techniques. Her husband even installed a separate large cabinet for teaching materials for Svetlana. In addition, the couple wants to go on a trip. Yuri will use the money he won to buy himself a new car. In addition, the couple plans to spend part of the winnings on targeted charity.

Svetlana and Yuri have two children. They live in other cities. The daughter works as a neurologist, and the son works as a dentist. The couple is proud of their children and considers them the most important gift of fate. According to the winner, winning the lottery will change the life of everyone in the household for the better and make it easier.

Luck Seller

Yuri has been interested in lotteries for about three years. Participates in drawings almost every week. Most often he buys tickets at Stoloto branded sales points.

Yes, I have a couple of favorite lottery kiosks and ticket sellers. I remember that day I bought an instant lottery ticket in a New Year’s design and won 5,000 rubles. With this money I immediately chose tubes for the “New Year’s Billion”. One of them turned out to be fateful“, Yuri shared.

For him, lotteries are both a pleasant pastime and a chance to try his luck.

Lotteries are a game of luck. Lucky or unlucky. You should never be upset about losses. It’s like fishing. I remember once I went fishing, and there was one fisherman who didn’t catch anything worthwhile all day. I stood there for about 15 minutes and pulled out a big pike. Same with the lottery. The main thing here is to be calm, not to spend a lot of money, always hope and believe in the bestadvised the winner.

According to Svetlana, her husband has “golden hands.” The fact that they were the ones who selected and bought the billion-dollar ticket confirms what has been said.

Let us remind you that according to the results of the “New Year’s Billion” from the “Russian Lotto”, 9,208,638 tickets became winning tickets, and a total of 2,779,715,190 rubles were drawn in the holiday draw. In addition to the fact that in the 1526th draw the main prize of 1 billion rubles was won, on the first day of the new year 2024, 100 prizes of 1 million rubles were drawn in the Russian Lotto: 87 people won 1 million rubles each, another 13 million rubles were played among 80 lottery participants, each of them won 162.5 thousand rubles. In addition, another 22 lucky winners won 454,545 rubles each, sharing the first round prize of 10,000,000 rubles.

source: Stoloto press service

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