Alexander Litvinenko

Quality:

Alexander Litvinenko - ex-KGB agent and FSB lieutenant-colonel (1962-2006). This person is the 5197^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Alexander Litvinenko” in English Wikipedia has 86.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 222 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.57 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8386^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7638^th most popular in AI.

The 5197^th most popular in people.

In June 2025 the article “Alexander Litvinenko” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Alexander Litvinenko”, its content was written by 894 registered users of English Wikipedia (8386^th place) and edited by 2886 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7638^th place).

Alexander Litvinenko is on the 5197^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 269 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1695 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #13 in November 2006
• Global: #6 in November 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1338 in March 2018
• Global: #814 in January 2016

There are 43 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, 2025 (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	English (en) Alexander Litvinenko		86.9134
2	Spanish (es) Aleksandr Litvinenko		82.8571
3	German (de) Alexander Walterowitsch Litwinenko		77.9165
4	Russian (ru) Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович		69.3541
5	Hebrew (he) אלכסנדר ליטוויננקו		56.2752
6	Estonian (et) Aleksandr Litvinenko		55.5225
7	Ukrainian (uk) Литвиненко Олександр Вальтерович		54.4379
8	Chinese (zh) 亞歷山大·瓦爾特羅維奇·利特維年科		40.3046
9	French (fr) Alexandre Litvinenko		37.5615
10	Portuguese (pt) Alexander Litvinenko		35.4397

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alexander Litvinenko		6 860 226
2	Russian (ru) Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович		3 750 347
3	German (de) Alexander Walterowitsch Litwinenko		1 107 473
4	Polish (pl) Aleksandr Litwinienko		836 938
5	Japanese (ja) アレクサンドル・リトビネンコ		771 076
6	French (fr) Alexandre Litvinenko		632 724
7	Italian (it) Aleksandr Val'terovič Litvinenko		572 538
8	Spanish (es) Aleksandr Litvinenko		554 192
9	Dutch (nl) Aleksandr Litvinenko		279 103
10	Portuguese (pt) Alexander Litvinenko		181 704

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) Alexander Litvinenko		24 976
2	Russian (ru) Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович		11 766
3	German (de) Alexander Walterowitsch Litwinenko		2 539
4	Polish (pl) Aleksandr Litwinienko		1 525
5	French (fr) Alexandre Litvinenko		1 482
6	Spanish (es) Aleksandr Litvinenko		1 481
7	Italian (it) Aleksandr Val'terovič Litvinenko		1 400
8	Japanese (ja) アレクサンドル・リトビネンコ		1 372
9	Chinese (zh) 亞歷山大·瓦爾特羅維奇·利特維年科		807
10	Simple English (simple) Alexander Litvinenko		804

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alexander Litvinenko		894
2	German (de) Alexander Walterowitsch Litwinenko		310
3	Russian (ru) Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович		266
4	French (fr) Alexandre Litvinenko		136
5	Italian (it) Aleksandr Val'terovič Litvinenko		120
6	Spanish (es) Aleksandr Litvinenko		100
7	Hebrew (he) אלכסנדר ליטוויננקו		74
8	Polish (pl) Aleksandr Litwinienko		72
9	Dutch (nl) Aleksandr Litvinenko		71
10	Japanese (ja) アレクサンドル・リトビネンコ		67

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) Alexander Litvinenko		3
2	Spanish (es) Aleksandr Litvinenko		2
3	Persian (fa) الکساندر لیتویننکو		1
4	Serbian (sr) Александар Литвињенко		1
5	Turkish (tr) Aleksandr Litvinenko		1
6	Arabic (ar) ألكسندر ليتفينينكو		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Aleksandr Litvinenko		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Александър Литвиненко		0
9	Catalan (ca) Aleksandr Litvinenko		0
10	Czech (cs) Alexandr Litviněnko		0

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

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