A resident of Novosibirsk won a third of a billion in the New Year's Russian Lotto drawing


2 January 13:08
According to the results of the 1707th New Year's draw of the Russian Lotto, the main prize of the New Year's Billion in the amount of 1 billion rubles was shared by three participants, winning 333,333,333 rubles each.
The main prize of the “New Year's Billion”-2026 was played in the second round of the drawing on the 31st move. According to preliminary information, the winners bought tickets in the Tyumen, Sverdlovsk and Novosibirsk regions. Also, following the results of the third round, on move 54, a prize of 100 million rubles was drawn. According to preliminary data, the ticket that won 100 million rubles was purchased as part of a gift set in the Lipetsk region.
In total, on the first day of the new year, 2026, another 98 participants from different regions of the country won 1 million rubles. The remaining 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.
In total, according to the results of the “New Year’s Billion”, 14,748,754 tickets became winning tickets; 4,247,063,723 rubles were drawn in the holiday draw – a new absolute record for the total amount of winnings in one draw among all Russian state lotteries. The previous record was set in the 1604th draw of the Russian Lotto, which took place on January 1, 2025. Then a total of 3,652,173,987 rubles were drawn.



