Alpha Group

Alpha Group - Russian spetsnaz unit under the command of the FSB. Article “Alpha Group” in English Wikipedia has 80.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 118 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.91 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Alpha Group” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Alpha Group”, its content was written by 240 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 828 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 141 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1266 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #416 in December 2002
• Global: #1326 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #13116 in February 2015
• Global: #12880 in March 2022

There are 23 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	Russian (ru) Альфа (спецподразделение)		87.6923
2	English (en) Alpha Group		80.208
3	Chinese (zh) 阿爾法小組		71.6105
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Spetsnazgruppa Alfa		35.8003
5	Portuguese (pt) Grupo Alpha		26.4323
6	German (de) ALFA (Spezialeinheit)		25.3785
7	Vietnamese (vi) Alpha (đội đặc nhiệm)		20.4075
8	Hebrew (he) יחידת אלפא (רוסיה)		19.855
9	Polish (pl) Grupa Alfa		19.4308
10	Norwegian (no) Spetsnazgruppen Alfa		18.9944

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Alpha Group" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Альфа (спецподразделение)		3 793 815
2	English (en) Alpha Group		2 864 781
3	Chinese (zh) 阿爾法小組		410 538
4	Japanese (ja) アルファ部隊		405 613
5	German (de) ALFA (Spezialeinheit)		309 267
6	Spanish (es) Grupo Alfa		207 275
7	Italian (it) Gruppo Alpha		146 161
8	Polish (pl) Grupa Alfa		124 470
9	French (fr) Groupe Alpha		73 998
10	Vietnamese (vi) Alpha (đội đặc nhiệm)		60 073

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Alpha Group" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Альфа (спецподразделение)		16 513
2	English (en) Alpha Group		12 484
3	Chinese (zh) 阿爾法小組		1 829
4	Japanese (ja) アルファ部隊		1 602
5	German (de) ALFA (Spezialeinheit)		1 290
6	French (fr) Groupe Alpha		540
7	Italian (it) Gruppo Alpha		514
8	Polish (pl) Grupa Alfa		451
9	Spanish (es) Grupo Alfa		435
10	Vietnamese (vi) Alpha (đội đặc nhiệm)		366

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

Language versions of the article "Alpha Group" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alpha Group		240
2	Russian (ru) Альфа (спецподразделение)		204
3	German (de) ALFA (Spezialeinheit)		80
4	Italian (it) Gruppo Alpha		41
5	Chinese (zh) 阿爾法小組		33
6	Japanese (ja) アルファ部隊		32
7	Danish (da) Alfa (specialstyrke)		29
8	French (fr) Groupe Alpha		26
9	Hebrew (he) יחידת אלפא (רוסיה)		21
10	Spanish (es) Grupo Alfa		19

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

Language versions of the article "Alpha Group" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alpha Group		4
2	Russian (ru) Альфа (спецподразделение)		3
3	Thai (th) กลุ่มอัลฟา		1
4	Chinese (zh) 阿爾法小組		1
5	Arabic (ar) مجموعة ألفا (قوات روسية)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Алфа (специални части)		0
7	Danish (da) Alfa (specialstyrke)		0
8	German (de) ALFA (Spezialeinheit)		0
9	Spanish (es) Grupo Alfa		0
10	Estonian (et) Alfa (terrorismivastane eriüksus)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Alpha Group" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) アルファ部隊		465
2	Russian (ru) Альфа (спецподразделение)		287
3	English (en) Alpha Group		141
4	Chinese (zh) 阿爾法小組		62
5	Hebrew (he) יחידת אלפא (רוסיה)		50
6	Spanish (es) Grupo Alfa		33
7	German (de) ALFA (Spezialeinheit)		28
8	French (fr) Groupe Alpha		27
9	Portuguese (pt) Grupo Alpha		27
10	Italian (it) Gruppo Alpha		21

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مجموعة ألفا (قوات روسية)
bg	Bulgarian Алфа (специални части)
da	Danish Alfa (specialstyrke)
de	German ALFA (Spezialeinheit)
en	English Alpha Group
es	Spanish Grupo Alfa
et	Estonian Alfa (terrorismivastane eriüksus)
fr	French Groupe Alpha
he	Hebrew יחידת אלפא (רוסיה)
it	Italian Gruppo Alpha
ja	Japanese アルファ部隊
lt	Lithuanian Alfa būrys
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Spetsnazgruppa Alfa
no	Norwegian Spetsnazgruppen Alfa
pl	Polish Grupa Alfa
pt	Portuguese Grupo Alpha
ru	Russian Альфа (спецподразделение)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Alfa grupa
sr	Serbian Алфа група
th	Thai กลุ่มอัลฟา
tr	Turkish Alfa Grubu
vi	Vietnamese Alpha (đội đặc nhiệm)
zh	Chinese 阿爾法小組

Best Rank

English: #13116 02.2015

Global: #12880 03.2022

Best Rank

English: #416 12.2002

Global: #1326 12.2002

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