Der Archipel Gulag

Quality:

The Gulag Archipelago - 1973 essay by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This book is the 396^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 438^th most popular book in German Wikipedia. Article “Der Archipel Gulag” in German Wikipedia has 29.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 438^th most popular in books in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 396^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Der Archipel Gulag”, its content was written by 136 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1399 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Gulag Archipelago is on the 438^th place in local ranking of books in German Wikipedia and on the 396^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 116 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1491 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #265 in November 2015
• Global: #5080 in September 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2572 in August 2008
• Global: #5768 in August 2008

There are 39 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	Turkish (tr) Gulag Takımadaları		59.1793
2	English (en) The Gulag Archipelago		53.5614
3	Russian (ru) Архипелаг ГУЛАГ		43.2326
4	Chinese (zh) 古拉格群岛		42.9115
5	French (fr) L'Archipel du Goulag		38.0758
6	Finnish (fi) Gulag: Vankileirien saaristo		35.0314
7	Slovak (sk) Súostrovie Gulag		33.909
8	Serbian (sr) Архипелаг Гулаг		33.6748
9	Romanian (ro) Arhipelagul Gulag		32.5715
10	German (de) Der Archipel Gulag		29.0786

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Gulag Archipelago		5 114 474
2	Russian (ru) Архипелаг ГУЛАГ		2 636 629
3	German (de) Der Archipel Gulag		866 457
4	French (fr) L'Archipel du Goulag		634 709
5	Spanish (es) Archipiélago Gulag		575 638
6	Polish (pl) Archipelag GUŁag		449 983
7	Italian (it) Arcipelago Gulag		385 956
8	Chinese (zh) 古拉格群岛		217 348
9	Portuguese (pt) Arquipélago Gulag		210 702
10	Japanese (ja) 収容所群島		208 670

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) The Gulag Archipelago		17 036
2	Russian (ru) Архипелаг ГУЛАГ		6 182
3	German (de) Der Archipel Gulag		2 797
4	French (fr) L'Archipel du Goulag		2 111
5	Polish (pl) Archipelag GUŁag		1 370
6	Italian (it) Arcipelago Gulag		1 111
7	Chinese (zh) 古拉格群岛		956
8	Japanese (ja) 収容所群島		906
9	Spanish (es) Archipiélago Gulag		655
10	Greek (el) Αρχιπέλαγος Γκούλαγκ		569

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Gulag Archipelago		307
2	Russian (ru) Архипелаг ГУЛАГ		164
3	French (fr) L'Archipel du Goulag		147
4	German (de) Der Archipel Gulag		136
5	Italian (it) Arcipelago Gulag		71
6	Spanish (es) Archipiélago Gulag		60
7	Chinese (zh) 古拉格群岛		45
8	Dutch (nl) De Goelag Archipel		42
9	Polish (pl) Archipelag GUŁag		40
10	Finnish (fi) Gulag: Vankileirien saaristo		36

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	Serbian (sr) Архипелаг Гулаг		3
2	English (en) The Gulag Archipelago		2
3	Basque (eu) Gulag uhartedia		1
4	French (fr) L'Archipel du Goulag		1
5	Italian (it) Arcipelago Gulag		1
6	Polish (pl) Archipelag GUŁag		1
7	Arabic (ar) أرخبيل غولاغ		0
8	Belarusian (be) Архіпелаг ГУЛАГ		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Архипелаг Гулаг		0
10	Catalan (ca) Arxipèlag Gulag		0

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

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