Sportloto: real stories. Life under the sign of "Sportloto"

Sportsloto

Lottery ticket "5 out of 36".

« Sportsloto" - state lottery in the USSR. According to the system of rules, it is a variant of the internationally famous gambling game “keno”. Played according to the systems " 5 out of 36" And " 6 out of 45”(the latter in 1986, at “numerous requests from workers,” replaced the “6 out of 49” system, with the goal of increasing the probability of winning by 30%), each number corresponded to a specific sport. The first draw of Sportloto took place on October 20, 1970; profits from the drawings (half of the proceeds from ticket sales) went to finance Soviet sports. Notes discussing winning strategies were discussed in periodicals, such as the journal Science and Life. During the years of the USSR, the program was broadcast live on Central Television, hosted by Tatyana Malysheva. In the 1970s, the 6 for 49 draw was held on Wednesdays and the 5 for 36 was held on Saturdays. In the early 1980s, both draws began to be held on Saturdays, and from the mid-1980s on Sundays. In the 1990s, it aired on the RTR channel (mid-90s) and on Channel One TV (1993-1998).

« Sports forecast" - a state lottery held since 1987, in fact, a state sports betting in the USSR in the form of a fixed express bet. The goal is to guess the outcome of at least 11 of 13 events in regular time, and the events are selected in such a way that the probability of the occurrence of individual two of the three outcomes of each event is expert assessment approximately equal. On the ticket you had to mark one of three options the result of a football (less often, other sport) match. In case of cancellation or postponement of the game later than the date last event, the “result” was played in a lottery machine with balls “ 1 » « X» « 2 "(7 pieces each), and there was a case of drawing two such events in one draw. The tickets were initially similar to Sportloto, where you had to mark exactly three options; after the launch of Lotto-Million they made lottery forms where you could mark up to four unique options, you can also place more than 1 outcome (two or three) for each event with a corresponding increase in ticket price. Currently held under the name “Sportprognoz-match”.

« Sportloto-Keno" - experiment in the system "6 (+1 called preferential ball) from 56", which began in the 90s. After relative unpopularity, the rules were changed to the existing ones (marked from 1 to 6 numbers, winnings are of a fixed size).

Nowadays

Based on Government Order Russian Federation dated September 14, 2009 No. 1318-r Sportloto LLC is the operator state lotteries held in support of the XXII Olympic Games winter games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi. Lottery organizer: Ministry of Finance of Russia. Sportloto is the only lottery company in Russia that has the right to use elements of Olympic symbols.

OOO " Sportsloto» is a subsidiary of OJSC "Sberbank of Russia".

The goal is to revive the traditions of lotteries, in which each participant makes a contribution to the development of national sports and can win big prize. Sportloto offers the “Sportloto 6 out of 49” and “KENO Sportsloto” lotteries, as well as 10 instant lotteries.

More than 50% of all proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets constitute the lottery prize fund, from which winnings are paid to the winners.

Targeted contributions from the lottery will be sent to the budget of the Russian Federation.

Rules of the game

Those who wanted to try their luck purchased a Sportloto ticket at a specialized kiosk or at the Soyuzpechat kiosk. He marked the circulation number on the ticket and crossed out the selected numbers. Each number corresponded to a specific sport. Until the early 1980s, each draw consisted of two drawings. Then the system changed: there was only one draw per draw, but players now had the opportunity to cross out two options for sets of numbers on their tickets. The ticket consisted of parts A, B, C. Part A remained with the player, parts B and C were sent to the sports lottery department. Part B was probably machine readable.

A ticket was considered a winner if at least three crossed out numbers in one of the options matched the results of the draw indicated on it. The size of the winnings increased with the number of numbers guessed.

There were also ten-draw tickets, in which the marked combination was played in 10 draws in a row, starting with the marked one. If the ticket won at least one, the winnings were paid out within the time limits established for last edition. Since 1987, it could also be used as 10 regular ones.

Raffle

The drawing was held once a week, previously usually during a break in a sports broadcast. Then it began to be held on Sundays. Balls with numbers rotated in a transparent drum, which then fell into the chute one after another, determining the winning numbers.

As musical accompaniment the melody used was Popcorn performed by an ensemble led by Meshcherin.

Nowadays

The drawing of the LOTTO 6x49 game is held once a week, on Saturdays

The KENO game draw is held every day,

Winning strategy

In popular culture

In the song by Vladimir Vysotsky (parodying the fascination of Soviet citizens with the theme of UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, etc.), patients of the “Kanatchikova Dacha” (psychiatric hospital) in their letter to the editor of the television program “Obvious-Incredible” warn:

...answer us, otherwise
If you don't respond -
We will write to Sportloto!

In 1982, Leonid Gaidai’s film “Sportloto-82” was released, the heroes of which are fighting for the right to own a ticket for which they got big win, in which the first six numbers are crossed out sequentially in two versions. The specified combination was partially repeated in real history (1,2,3,4)

In 1982, the group “Dynamic” dedicated the song “Sportloto” to the lottery.

...I'm taking a risk again
But I will never give up!
I'm taking a risk again
I'm playing Sportloto!

In December 1977, the 7th concert of Alexander Shevalovsky with the Oberton ensemble was recorded; 22 songs in the concert

<АШ>- If you are unlucky in the lottery, then you will definitely be lucky in Sportloto.

Play Sportsloto everywhere, play without swearing, know that you have more chances to waste your money here.

That's why it's Sportloto, there is no game more gambling, know that you pay the money - someone wins.

It’s not for nothing that there are four draws each week, so that you can be knocked down without a knife, you know, you’re a brave player.

You pay your income voluntarily, peacefully, Play, don’t think about the catch - you’re a profitable player

If your forehead is like a chisel, or an oak from nature, play more Sportsloto, wait for your weather. (3 times)

Mikhail Boyarsky - “Olympic joke”: ... I myself am still playing “Sportloto”.

Verka Serduchka, song “Everything will be fine”

…
Life is like “Sportloto”!
I fell in love, but not that
Won the jackpot in love
I took a closer look - idiot!

Sometimes people compare the draw taking place in live(for example, choosing an option number for final school exams), with Sportloto.

Notes

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Synonyms

See what "Sportloto" is in other dictionaries: Sportsloto…

Spelling dictionary-reference book

- “SPORTLOTO 82”, USSR, Mosfilm, 1982, color, 95 min. Eccentric comedy. In the carriage of a train heading to the Black Sea, passenger Kostya gave his fellow traveler Tanya a Sportloto ticket. Having filled out the ticket, Tanya returned it to Kostya for safekeeping. Kostya o... ... Encyclopedia of Cinema

Lottery Dictionary of Russian synonyms. sportloto noun, number of synonyms: 1 lottery (16) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Synonym dictionary

The first draw of Sportloto took place on October 20, 1970. Interestingly, about 1.5 million cards were sold for it, and in just a week. Subsequently, up to 10 million tickets were sold per circulation.

For the first draw of the Gosloto lottery 6 out of 45, which took place on November 10, 2008, 159,876 tickets were sold, 737,495 bets. Less, of course, but still quite a decent result.

But the start of the lottery did not always go so smoothly. For example " Russian Lotto“I can’t boast of special sales of the first edition; everything happened completely differently:

« Our mistake was that we started the business incorrectly. Of course, we had to start with organizing a ticket sales network. For example, English national lottery in the very first days it sold several million pounds worth of tickets. But more than twenty-six thousand terminals for selling tickets were pre-installed there, even before the launch of the lottery itself.

We had none of this. We have already announced the first edition, Malik paid television for the studio. He was deceived everywhere because he did not know the prices: he paid as much as they said. Huge amounts of money were made for the production and display of advertising videos on the TV channel. Almost all the money was spent, and there was simply no one to distribute tickets among the population.

And we made a completely unimaginable move. Malik took all his remaining money, I contributed another two hundred thousand dollars from mine, and we ourselves bought out the entire first draw of the lottery! All our employees were sent to the entrances to the metro and to the streets to hand out tickets to all passers-by, offering only one thing: turn on the TV and play Russian Lotto with the presenter. Our employees distributed some of the tickets in large stores. ……

For the next edition, we had already purchased twenty-seven thousand tickets. People started looking for tickets and buying several at a time, especially those who won. Again this money was not enough, and again I had to add my hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The third edition has already brought fifty-five thousand tickets sold. And although, according to the rules, the lottery prize fund was half of the income from the sale, we threw all the money at the prize fund and again got out of the situation. Cashiers in department stores were involved: a ticket cost a dollar, for each ticket sold they received twenty cents in their pocket. And each edition our ticket sales practically doubled.”
A. Tarasov, “Millionaire”

Exciting start to the lottery, isn't it? Almost 17 years have passed, and “Russian Lotto” is still alive. Could those who received free tickets from the first drawing think that this lottery would last for so long?

I think it’s interesting to see what the tickets for the first draws of many of our lotteries looked like. Both currently active and already forgotten.

So, the first editions. Current lotteries:

"Russian Lotto", Company "Milan"
The first circulation took place on October 16, 1994 on the RTR channel. Initially, only Moscow residents could take part in the lottery, but in 1996 it became all-Russian.

"Golden Key", CJSC "Interlot"
The first circulation took place on December 20, 1997 on the TV Center channel. The first presenter is a girl, Svetlana. The presenter Victor Bertier, who was practically associated with the Golden Key lottery, appeared later.

August 1999, direct line with the participation of the Directorate of the Golden Key:
- From Moscow Natalia. IN Lately Many different lotteries have appeared. How is the “Golden Key” different from them?
- Firstly, our lottery is the most honest: play and you will definitely win. And secondly, and you probably know this - all lotteries are the same. But in “Golden Key” people win more often.

I don’t have the 1st edition ticket yet, so the scan is from here:

It is worth noting that the TV Bingo Show lottery was not even the second to appear (Russian Lotto and Golden Key existed for several years), however, it deservedly took third place. For the first edition, 394 thousand tickets were sold, and for the 10th edition, 850 thousand tickets have already been sold. By the way, it was in this lottery that the Mukhametzyanov family from Ufa won $1 million in 2001. For a long time this was the largest win in Russia, the record was broken only in 2008, when Albert Begrakyan won 100 million rubles (almost $3 million) in Gosloto. Now Bingo Show has lost a lot of ground...

The tickets of the first circulations did not differ in variety; almost the only difference was that the circulation number was stamped. Here is a scan of the 5th edition

"Trump Card", "Interlot"
The first drawing took place on September 23, 2006. The only lottery that uses card lottery.

"Russian Troika", CJSC "Interlot"
The first drawing took place on August 4, 2007. Presenter - LADUSHKAN
“Russian Troika” is the only lottery in Russia in which one ticket can win 5 times in one draw! (from description)

But not all lotteries lived happily ever after. Sometimes they ended due to problems or miscalculations of the organizers, and sometimes vice versa - the organizers were looking for new forms or opportunities, but apparently these innovations did not justify their hopes.

Lotteries that are no longer with us

Every week, two players are invited to the studio where the lottery is held - and they are not billiard professionals at all. Athletes, politicians, businessmen, cultural and artistic figures, pop stars and other people famous throughout the country will meet behind the green cloth. Thus, at the presentation of the lottery, the game was played by the head of the Agency for physical culture and sports Vyacheslav Fetisov and coach of the Russian national tennis team Shamil Tarpishchev. Itriga is preserved until last moment, because only the balls pocketed by the winner determine the winners (from the announcement)

"Bingo Lotto 12 out of 24", Lottery Trading Company LLC
The first drawing took place on February 24, 2008.

"Schedroe Lotto", LLC "Gaming and Lottery Technologies"
December 31, 2001 - February 2003, Ren-TV

In the first four months, ROSTO’s budget received over two million rubles from ticket sales. However, due to a number of mistakes made by the operator at the initial stage of development of this project, and unsatisfactory knowledge of the peculiarities of the Russian lottery market, the investor encountered serious financial problems, which led first to delays in the payment of winnings and other settlements of obligations, and then to a complete stop of circulation.
(from an interview with Vladimir Dranishnikov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Council of ROSTO (DOSAAF))

Targeted contributions from the lottery will be sent to the budget of the Russian Federation.

Story

Sportloto is a state lottery in the USSR. The first draw of “Sportloto” took place on October 20, 1970 in the Moscow Central House of Journalists, the profits from the drawings (half of the proceeds from ticket sales) were spent on financing Soviet sports. One and a half million tickets took part in the drawing. The winner was a Muscovite whose profession (engineer-economist) was directly related to numbers. Her winnings amounted to 5,000 rubles. This is 3 years of work of a Soviet engineer, or 62 pairs of imported ones women's boots, or the cost of a new Moskvich car.

The lottery ticket was filled out manually. In the tables it was necessary to cross out the playing numbers with crosses. In the 80s, one ticket had two independent options, each of which could win the draw. The cut-off part A remained with the player, and parts B and C were dropped into the yellow box of the Sportloto kiosk. The ticket cost 60 kopecks.

After the success of the “Sportloto 6 out of 49” lottery, new formula- "5 out of 36", and "6 out of 49" was later converted into "6 out of 45". Each drawing involved up to 10,000,000 tickets, and sometimes even more, which is an absolute record in history Soviet lotteries. Notes discussing winning strategies were published in periodicals, for example, in the journal Science and Life. During the years of the USSR, the program was broadcast live on Central Television, hosted by Tatyana Malyshenko. In the 1970s, the 6 for 49 draw was held on Wednesdays and the 5 for 36 was held on Saturdays. In the early 1980s, both draws began to be held on Saturdays, and from the mid-1980s on Sundays. In the 1990s it aired on the RTR channel (mid-1990s) and on Channel One TV (1993-1998).

When interest in the lottery began to decline, for the winners Grand Prize- ten thousand rubles, an additional bonus was provided - the right to an extraordinary purchase of a Volga passenger car. Prize winners living in rural areas, could, at their choice, purchase a Volga or a Soviet SUV Niva out of turn. Given the shortage of passenger cars in the USSR, this fueled interest in the lottery.

“Sportprognoz” is a sports lottery that appeared in the second half of the 80s in which you had to guess the outcome of sports matches. It was somewhat similar to bookmaker bets. A blank form cost 2 kopecks. Participation in the lottery was paid for when returning the ticket to the Sportloto kiosk.

“KENO-Sportloto” is an experiment in the “6 (+1 called preferential ball) out of 56” system, which began in the 1990s. After relative unpopularity, the rules were changed to the existing ones (1 to 10 numbers out of 80 are marked, winnings are fixed).

Olympic lottery

In accordance with the application book, in support of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, the Government of the Russian Federation issued Order No. 1318-r dated September 14, 2009, on the basis of which All-Russian state lotteries began to be held.

The organizer of the lotteries was the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. The operator is Sportloto LLC.

Sportloto LLC also became an official partner of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee and the only lottery company in Russia that has the right to use elements of Olympic and Paralympic symbols.

In February 2011, 10 instant lotteries Sportloto: “Sports Season”, “Sports Without Borders”, “Russian Games”, “Forward to Victory”, “Peaks of Success”, “Faster, Higher, Stronger!”, “Fun Starts”, “Patterns on Ice”, “ Sports Festival", "Let's go!". Ticket prices ranged from 20 to 100 rubles. Prize fund was more than 50%.

In October 2011, the first draws of “Sportloto 6 out of 49” and “Keno-Sportloto” were held. “Sportloto 6 out of 49” is a lottery based on the classic formula, popular back in the USSR. Now this lottery draws are held daily at 09:30, 15:30 and 21:30 Moscow time. "Keno-Sportloto" is a numerical draw lottery. On this moment, draws are held every 15 minutes, and the maximum win is 10,000,000 rubles.

By the time of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in February 2014, more than 10,000,000 people took part in the Sportloto lotteries.

Rules of the game

Tickets can be purchased at various retail outlets sales or on specialized websites.

“Sportloto 6 out of 49” is a revived legend of Soviet times. This is a numerical lottery, to participate in which you just need to fill out a game coupon and pay the lottery receipt.

The goal of the game is to guess from 3 to 6 numbers in one playing field. To participate in the draw, you need to fill out the game coupon and pay the lottery receipt. There are 6 fields in the game coupon.

The minimum lottery bet “Sportloto 6 out of 49” includes 6 numbers in one playing field and costs 20 rubles. If a participant chooses from 6 to 17 numbers on the playing field, such a bet is called expanded and includes not one, but several combinations of 6 numbers. The probability and amount of winning on a spread bet is significantly higher.

The game has an additional bonus ball that gives lottery equipment after formation winning combination of 6 numbers. If his number coincides with one of the selected numbers in the bet of a participant in the draw, in which 5 numbers have already been guessed, the amount of winnings awarded to the participant for 5 numbers will increase. The bonus ball belongs to the same set of balls as the main one game combination. Therefore, only in “Sportloto 6 of 49” are cases possible when on one ticket 6 numbers can be guessed 2 times (more precisely, 6 numbers of the winning combination + the combination “5 numbers + bonus ball”).

"KENO-Sportloto" is a numerical lottery that is held in real time every 15 minutes. The lottery has 42 categories with fixed winnings (from 60 to 5,000,000 rubles) and a super prize of 10,000,000 rubles. The participant indicates in advance how many numbers (from 1 to 10 numbers) he is going to guess. The minimum ticket price is 60 rubles and does not depend on the choice of game option. Applying a multiplier increases both the cost of the ticket and the size of the potential winnings. Most big win- 10 million rubles - provided if the participant guessed 10 numbers out of 10 using a 10-fold multiplier. A random number generator (RNG) is used to determine the winning combination.

"Matchball" is a numerical lottery that is held live every day at 20:00 Moscow time. The cost of one ticket is from 50 rubles. The participant chooses from 5 numbers out of 50 in the first field and from 1 number out of 11 in the second. To win a super prize (from 10 million rubles), you need to guess 5 numbers in the first field and 1 number (the so-called “bonus ball”) in the second. In the remaining 9 prize categories, tickets where at least two numbers in the first field are guessed or a bonus ball are won.

Raffle

The drawing was held once a week, at first, usually during a break in a sports broadcast. Then it began to be held on Sundays. The lottery was carried out first using a vertical rectangular lottery machine, then using an electromechanical horizontal drum lottery machine, which was driven by removing a metal spoke from a cell of numbers, after which balls with numbers rotated in the lottery machine, which then fell into the chute one after another, determining the numbers - winners. The last ball stopped in a plastic basket. In some episodes there was also a mechanical lottery drum in the studio, which was rotated by members circulation commission and determined the lucky coupons sent by viewers, to whose addresses cash prizes were sent in an envelope.

The musical accompaniment was the melody Puffed Corn/Popcorn performed by the ensemble under the direction of Meshcherin and musical compositions Latvian group "Zodiac".

Until February 2013, a special numbering was used for each subsequent draw, where the first two digits indicated the number of years that have passed since 1990, the second two digits indicated the week number in the current year, and the last digit is the day of the week on which the draw is held. Since March 2013, continuous numbering of circulations has been used.

Nowadays

Today Sportloto includes the games “Sportloto 6 of 49”, “KENO Sportsloto”, as well as 10 instant lotteries (“Sports Season”, “Sports Without Borders”, “Russian Games”, “Forward to Victory”, “Peaks of Success”, “Faster, higher, stronger!”, “Fun starts”, “Patterns on Ice”, “Sports Festival”, “Let's go!”).

“Sportloto 6 out of 49” is a game based on the classic formula, draws of which have been held three times a day since March 2013. Draw start times are 9:30, 15:30, 21:30 Moscow time.

In the 23113th draw of “Sportloto 6 of 49”, which took place on June 2, 2013, for the first time in modern history A super prize was drawn for this game. Its amount was 10,000,000 rubles. The second largest prize went to the winner of the 23168th distribution circulation games (April 26, 2014), its amount is 2,241,003 rubles.

Instant non-draw lotteries "Sportloto" are available both at lottery kiosks and online, on the website of the operator TD "Stoloto". The maximum possible win today is 3,000,000 rubles.

Sportsloto is official lottery XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi.

Based on the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated September 14, 2009 No. 1318-r, Sportloto LLC is the operator of state lotteries held in support of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi. The organizer of the lotteries is the Ministry of Finance of Russia. Sportloto is the only lottery company in Russia that has the right to use elements of the Olympic symbols.

Draws for the KENO-Sportloto game are held every day every 15 minutes (from 02:00 to 06:00 Moscow time - technical break). The minimum ticket price is 10 rubles, which is one of the lowest among state lotteries. Winning combination determined by the generator random numbers. Winnings are fixed, from 20 to 1,000,000 rubles.

Winning strategy

In the article “Psychology of Sportloto”, published in the journal “Science and Life” for 1980, No. 1, a strategy was discussed in which it was proposed to play against the crowd - that is, choose numbers in a way that a typical player is unlikely to choose, for example, located in one line, column or diagonal. Thus, it was proposed to reduce the number of competitors in case of winning.

Many gamblers, both abroad and in Russia, have attracted and are attracting mathematical apparatus (in particular, probability theory) in an attempt to create winning strategy For numerical lotteries, which include Sportsloto and the world-famous lottery Keno. Most of them are based on multi-level analysis of a large sample of the results of previous circulations (as, for example, Georg Goldman proposes to do).” warn:

In December 1977, the 7th concert of Alexander Shevalovsky with the Oberton ensemble was recorded:

If you are unlucky in the lottery, then you will definitely be lucky in Sportloto.
Sportsloto, play everywhere, play, don’t swear,
Know that there are more chances to part with money here.
That’s why it’s Sportloto, there’s no more exciting game,
Know that you pay the money - someone wins.
It’s not for nothing that there are four circulations per week,
To knock you down without a knife, know that you are a brave player.
You voluntarily and peacefully pay your income tax,
Play, don’t think about the catch - you are a profitable player.
If the forehead is like a chisel, or an oak from nature,
Play more Sportsloto, wait for your weather.

Mikhail Boyarsky - “Olympic joke”: “I myself am still playing Sportloto.”

Verka Serduchka, song “Everything will be fine”:

Life is like Sportsloto!
I fell in love, but not that
Won the jackpot in love
I took a closer look - idiot!

Sometimes people compare live draws (for example, choosing an option number for final school exams) with Sportsloto.

“The first draw with the formula “6 out of 49” was played as an experiment,” recalled Viktor Ivonin, former boss Main Directorate of Sports Lotteries of the USSR. – 49 sports were assigned conventional serial numbers, and six numbers had to be marked with a cross. 1.5 million tickets were sold for the run.

The experiment was a success. On average, up to 10 million tickets were sold per circulation in the country. “Sportloto” quickly became super popular. If lottery tickets Sberbank was given as a bonus, but people immediately believed in Sportloto.

“We invited the queen of equestrian sports, Elena Petushkova, to one of the first television shows (they appeared on the air in January 1974,” said Ivonin. – Members of the circulation commission had to inspire confidence, so their presence at the drawings famous athletes, who were respected by the country, became an unchangeable tradition of Sportloto.

Of course, Sportloto was far from the first domestic lottery. The first appeared in Rus' already in 1700, and even in Soviet time the state did not disdain to play games of chance with its subjects.

– At first, the Bolsheviks decided that all this was not for us, they say, the machinations of the bourgeoisie and so on. And then the attitude changed - money was needed,” said Gosloto representative Mikhail Zharkov.

The Osoaviakhim lottery draws were especially popular among the red proletarians. Of course, if everything goes well, you could win not only a flight on an airship over Kharkov and Moscow, but also trip around the world. And a ticket for the First All-Union Aviation Lottery gave a chance to get a more practical than a foreign voyage, a powered thresher or a breeding stallion. The ticket cost only 30 kopecks - the same as the Sportloto ticket later.

Play for money

In the 70s, in Sportloto you could win not just one, but several horsepowers at once. Guessing all the numbers gave the right to an extraordinary receipt of a Zhiguli.

The first Sportloto draw took place in the Central House of Journalists, which was closed for special reasons. That “banquet” was attended by coach Vsevolod Bobrov, commentator Nikolai Ozerov, sports journalist Naum Dymarsky and world basketball champion Nina Eremina - members of the circulation commission. It was they who recorded the first gigantic win - from an engineer-economist from Moscow, Lidia Morozova.

“She guessed all 6 numbers out of 49 and received 5,000 rubles,” explained Victor Ivonin. – Later, the maximum winnings doubled to 10 thousand rubles. The average salary in the Union in those years was 200 re.

In general maximum winnings in “6 out of 49” no more than 10 people a year received.

Don't give a damn

According to probability theory, in the 6 out of 49 lottery there was one big win per 14 million combinations. But there were simpler options. In 1976, they launched a circulation with the formula “5 out of 36”. There the jackpot generally fell on 370 thousand options!

Novice cybernetics calculated all combinations in advance on antediluvian computers, and systems mathematicians derived “win-win” formulas for victory. So, an electronics engineer, and at that time a simple student of Baumanka, Konstantin Timoshenko, with the help of simple calculations, managed to earn 50-60 re per month on Sportloto - this was more than a scholarship!

But the Olympic Committee earned the most from Sportloto, to which a third of the income fell. On the advertising posters they wrote: “If you win, the sport wins!” More than 80 percent of the entire sports budget of the Union was brought in by Sportloto - 500 billion rubles over 20 years! There was enough for the 1980 Olympics and for local infrastructure.

“Our largest sports facilities were built with Sportloto’s money,” said Georgy Kanukov, head of the Rostov Department of Sportloto. – Grebnoy Canal and the school of the Olympic reserve in Rostov, the athletics arena in Shakhty, the swimming pool in Azov...

If it weren't for the lottery, the country would have missed out on many sporting victories. But in the 90s, Sportloto closed down. And the future Olympics in Sochi will no longer be held at the expense of the lottery, but at our expense.

An interesting point - despite the fact that the winnings of the first category (6 out of 49) during the period under review were 5,000 rubles, the amounts listed here are much larger. Perhaps the winners played systems (complete or incomplete), and the winnings increased due to smaller categories. But, in order to play this way, it is necessary that the frequency of draws and the cost of the bet be gentle.

In the first years of Sportloto’s existence, draws took place once every 10 days, that is, only three times a month! And that was quite enough... No joke, 560 million cards were sold in the first 100 editions! This is (on average) 5.6 million per circulation. Such scales for the current reincarnation of "Sportloto "6 out of 49", calling itself " A revived legend of Soviet times" are simply unattainable. Today we are offered a pale shadow, just a ridiculous parody of the lottery.

Source: timelottery, article " "

In almost every article telling about how the story began Soviet Sportloto, there is also mention of the first big winner - Muscovite Lidiya Morozova, who guessed 6 numbers in the first draw and won 5,000 rubles. For 1970 this is a lot of money, for example, average salary was about 115 rubles

However, this case is not exceptional. Big wins in next editions happened regularly, moreover, their size was even larger, here are a few records:

Winning amount and owner

10,000 rubles - driver V. Anisimov, Moscow

12,800 rubles - musician A. Panferov, Alma-Ata

15,600 rubles - Leningrad worker A. Khmelev

18,720 rubles - driver I. Stakle, Latvian SSR

20,840 rubles - employee A. Kudasov, Moscow

24,014 rubles - workers I. Maslovsky and V. Butivchenko, Zhdanov

24,488 rubles - worker G. Dobin, Leningrad

34,490 rubles - mechanic B. Oxlander, Tallinn

And, a particularly large win (in the 102nd draw) went to the engineer of the Leningrad Admiralty Association I. Grigoriev - 58,463 rubles

The hundredth edition of Sportloto took place on July 20, 1973, in Kharkov. In total, 560 million cards were sold during this time. That's three years! It turned out to be a very large-scale lottery, a “game of millions” in the very literally words.

30th edition of Sportloto, held in Voroshilovgrad

Over three years, 76 million rubles were paid to the players. total amount, allocated for the construction of sports facilities and facilities, organization and holding sporting events and the purchase of sports equipment amounted to about 50 million rubles