Nikolay Yejov

Quality:

Nikolai Yezhov - NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940). This person is the 7249^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Nikolay Yejov” in Azerbaijani Wikipedia has 12.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7249^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Azerbaijani Wikipedia:

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The 3062^nd most editable in Azerbaijani Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Nikolay Yejov” was edited by 2 authors in Azerbaijani Wikipedia (3062^nd place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Nikolay Yejov”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Azerbaijani Wikipedia and edited by 2014 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Nikolai Yezhov is on the 7249^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 23 times in Azerbaijani Wikipedia and cited 2576 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Azerbaijani): #506 in December 2016
• Global: #2989 in August 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Azerbaijani): #7204 in August 2025
• Global: #11517 in December 2021

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Spanish (es) Nikolái Yezhov		87.1741
2	Catalan (ca) Nikolai Iejov		83.8009
3	Russian (ru) Ежов, Николай Иванович		75.9017
4	English (en) Nikolai Yezhov		71.4014
5	Japanese (ja) ニコライ・エジョフ		64.3287
6	Polish (pl) Nikołaj Jeżow		63.4344
7	Portuguese (pt) Nikolai Yezhov		58.2294
8	German (de) Nikolai Iwanowitsch Jeschow		42.6956
9	Swedish (sv) Nikolaj Jezjov		34.283
10	Italian (it) Nikolaj Ivanovič Ežov		31.914

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nikolai Yezhov		4 850 205
2	Russian (ru) Ежов, Николай Иванович		4 699 174
3	Polish (pl) Nikołaj Jeżow		776 730
4	German (de) Nikolai Iwanowitsch Jeschow		700 935
5	Japanese (ja) ニコライ・エジョフ		645 748
6	French (fr) Nikolaï Iejov		457 191
7	Spanish (es) Nikolái Yezhov		305 469
8	Chinese (zh) 尼古拉·叶若夫		254 149
9	Italian (it) Nikolaj Ivanovič Ežov		173 787
10	Czech (cs) Nikolaj Ježov		167 950

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nikolai Yezhov		21 899
2	Russian (ru) Ежов, Николай Иванович		18 000
3	Japanese (ja) ニコライ・エジョフ		3 851
4	Polish (pl) Nikołaj Jeżow		3 347
5	German (de) Nikolai Iwanowitsch Jeschow		2 770
6	Spanish (es) Nikolái Yezhov		1 566
7	Chinese (zh) 尼古拉·叶若夫		1 371
8	French (fr) Nikolaï Iejov		1 321
9	Ukrainian (uk) Єжов Микола Іванович		825
10	Italian (it) Nikolaj Ivanovič Ežov		736

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Nikolai Yezhov		460
2	Russian (ru) Ежов, Николай Иванович		310
3	German (de) Nikolai Iwanowitsch Jeschow		138
4	French (fr) Nikolaï Iejov		115
5	Polish (pl) Nikołaj Jeżow		110
6	Italian (it) Nikolaj Ivanovič Ežov		81
7	Spanish (es) Nikolái Yezhov		73
8	Japanese (ja) ニコライ・エジョフ		61
9	Hebrew (he) ניקולאי יז'וב		53
10	Hungarian (hu) Nyikolaj Ivanovics Jezsov		49

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Nikolai Yezhov		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Nikolay Yejov		2
3	Catalan (ca) Nikolai Iejov		2
4	Arabic (ar) نيكولاي يجوف		1
5	Spanish (es) Nikolái Yezhov		1
6	French (fr) Nikolaï Iejov		1
7	Russian (ru) Ежов, Николай Иванович		1
8	Belarusian (be) Мікалай Іванавіч Яжоў		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Николай Ежов		0
10	Czech (cs) Nikolaj Ježov		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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