The Russian Railways lottery is an opportunity for passengers who regularly travel around the country by train to receive a pleasant bonus in the form of a lottery win in addition to an interesting trip.
It is very easy to become a participant in the lottery - all you need to do is purchase a ticket. At the same time, such an acquisition can be made in several main ways: buy a lottery ticket from a conductor, purchase it directly on the lottery website or on the website of the Russian Railways, and also make a purchase using an SMS message sent to the short number 7712.
Winning the lottery
The total size of the prize fund of the Russian Railways lottery, which is distributed among the participants, is more than 200 million rubles annually. Moreover, the cost of one ticket is only 100 rubles. In addition, important information for purchasers of lottery tickets may be that 10% of the proceeds from their sale are directed to various socially significant goals - helping sick children, social security for orphans, and others.
The determination of the lottery winner is carried out in the process of the so-called drawing, that is, a random selection of six numbers ranging from 1 to 36, which will become winning. The selection of these numbers is carried out by a specially created drawing commission once a month. In turn, the owners of those tickets in which at least 2 digits coincide with the winning numbers will be able to receive a cash prize, and the amount of the win will depend on the number of matches.
In total, since the start of the lottery, more than 700 thousand people have received cash prizes from the Russian Railways, and the total amount of the prize fund has exceeded 520 million rubles.
Ticket verification
It is quite simple to check if your ticket is a winning one. After the drawing commission has carried out the next monthly determination of the winning numbers, you need to go to the official website of the Russian Railways lottery. On the main page of the site there is a form for checking winning lottery tickets: it is necessary to enter its 14-digit number, which is located immediately below the barcode, and then click the "Check" button.
However, for those who, for one reason or another, do not have the opportunity to visit the site to find out whether the purchased ticket is a winning one, there are other ways to do this. So, the results of determining the winning numbers after the circulation are published in the newspapers Gudok and Komsomolskaya Pravda.
In addition, the player can send an SMS message with a 6-digit ticket verification code to the short number 7712 no later than one day before the start of the draw. which the message was sent to.
