Round the world voyage
Alexander Kazarinov chose a trip, and did not lose! Voyage, started at the Moscow airport, lasted 71 day, кругосветку активно освещали многие советские газеты и журналы.
По итогам поездки победитель опубликовал в рыбинской газете “Рабочий и пахарь” свои мемуары:
"Osoaviakhim took off my old trousers and shirt, giving me a new European suit, then they put me on the plane of the German company "Deruluft", and already in Konigsberg an interpreter was assigned to me ".
He didn’t like Koenigsberg, Too cramped and old!». But Berlin and especially the German match factory made an indelible impression on the accountant from Rybinsk: “This is a factory! There is complete order inside the workshops, new equipment, cars, packing delighted me!».
In Paris, Kazarinov was in the same group with two American women: “One is the wife of a millionaire banker, and the other - a major engineer ... When they found out, that I am from Russia, American women have veins with fear, should be, shook ".
From Europe, on the motor ship "Albert Ballive" Kazarinov sailed to America. US immigration authorities initially did not allow him to land in New York. He was detained aboard a motor ship and placed in a barracks for illegal migrants on Ellis Island.
After several hours in a cell and interrogation by the authorities, interested in, is Kazarinov going to overthrow the US government, the traveler has received permission to enter the country.
“Tell your comrades in the USSR, that i feel great,- Kazarinov asked the TASS correspondent in New York. "The journey gives me great pleasure.". By the way, to your next destination - Chicago, Alexander went by train in a first class carriage, like a real millionaire. It was compensation from the Americans for the inconvenience caused..
California became the final destination in the USA, from where the ocean liner delivered it to the Japanese port of Yokohama.
“Many spies met us at the pier. And one in civilian clothes even asked in Russian: "You are the one, who won the trip from the Bolsheviks? I suppose, happy, what finally broke out!». And I answered him with a fig: "It is for you!».
A trip around the world has become fateful for a simple bookkeeper. After returning home, Kazarinov moved from Rybinsk to Moscow, where he became a staff lecturer at Osoaviakhim. Now he began to travel around Russia - he traveled to cities with stories about life abroad..
Money instead of a trip
Not all winners chose travel as a prize. There were those, who preferred to take the winnings in money. One of them is an unknown resident of Samara, on the ticket of which the flight on the route Moscow - Paris - Moscow fell.
The winner who won the trip on the route Moscow - Paris - Moscow decided to get it in money
Ticket owner, refused to give his last name, received the cost of the flight - 1 425 rubles. The note also mentions three smaller winning tickets (circular flights over cities), true, and in these cases, the winners decided to take money.
Dream of flying
Another interesting case is connected with one of the issues of the Osoaviakhim lottery, when choosing a win (flight by plane) literally determined the fate
"Sergey Anokhin, born in 1910 year, after graduating from seven-year school, he worked as a tracklayer on the railway. The path to heaven began with a lucky chance: at the end of the 20s of the last century, Sergei's older brother won skis in the Osoaviakhim lottery and asked his brother to pick them up in the committee of this organization. When the next day Sergei showed up there, It revealed, that there is another option for the lottery prize - flight (as a passenger) on a light plane over Moscow. Without hesitation, Sergey exchanged the won skis for him. This is how he first lifted off the ground.
Back from flight, Sergey understood: to fly is his calling. As the writer Yaroslav Golovanov later put it, “This is how the biggest prize in the history of all our lotteries took place: Soviet aviation won Sergei Anokhin ".
Results of the first draw
All income, received from a lottery, entered the USSR Defense and Aviation-Chemical Construction Fund. On funds, received by the Society, produced 35 combat aircraft and 30 tanks MS-1
The success of the lottery was so obvious, that soon the second edition was carried out, it took place in may 1928 in Kharkov. Total passed 15 circulations of Osoviahim, the last one took place in 1941 year. During this time, the state budget received more than 800 million rubles.
After the war, the lottery continued on almost the same principles., but under a different name, ее проводит преемник Осоавиахиама — общество «ДОСААФ»
