Andrei Sakharov

Quality:

Andrei Sakharov - Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989). This person is the 6662^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Andrei Sakharov” in English Wikipedia has 69.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 84 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.21 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6919^th most popular in AI.

The 6662^nd most popular in people.

In June 2026 the article “Andrei Sakharov” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Andrei Sakharov”, its content was written by 522 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3072 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6919^th place).

Andrei Sakharov is on the 6662^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1042 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10761 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1032 in September 2002
• Global: #1658 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #15973 in March 2015
• Global: #4468 in May 2021

There are 54 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	Russian (ru) Сахаров, Андрей Дмитриевич		92.6398
2	English (en) Andrei Sakharov		69.1783
3	French (fr) Andreï Sakharov		53.4802
4	Esperanto (eo) Andrej Saĥarov		50.3366
5	German (de) Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sacharow		49.8424
6	Chinese (zh) 安德烈·萨哈罗夫		45.9439
7	Azerbaijani (az) Andrey Saxarov		41.1859
8	Georgian (ka) ანდრია სახაროვი		36.4508
9	Portuguese (pt) Andrei Sakharov		36.3566
10	Catalan (ca) Andrei Sàkharov		36.3357

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Сахаров, Андрей Дмитриевич		6 559 230
2	English (en) Andrei Sakharov		3 389 450
3	German (de) Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sacharow		826 819
4	French (fr) Andreï Sakharov		659 955
5	Italian (it) Andrej Dmitrievič Sacharov		423 247
6	Spanish (es) Andréi Sájarov		401 651
7	Polish (pl) Andriej Sacharow		397 964
8	Japanese (ja) アンドレイ・サハロフ		396 661
9	Chinese (zh) 安德烈·萨哈罗夫		278 229
10	Ukrainian (uk) Сахаров Андрій Дмитрович		184 182

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Сахаров, Андрей Дмитриевич		17 715
2	English (en) Andrei Sakharov		10 823
3	German (de) Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sacharow		1 963
4	French (fr) Andreï Sakharov		1 374
5	Italian (it) Andrej Dmitrievič Sacharov		1 342
6	Japanese (ja) アンドレイ・サハロフ		1 232
7	Chinese (zh) 安德烈·萨哈罗夫		1 185
8	Polish (pl) Andriej Sacharow		1 044
9	Spanish (es) Andréi Sájarov		998
10	Ukrainian (uk) Сахаров Андрій Дмитрович		711

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Andrei Sakharov		522
2	Russian (ru) Сахаров, Андрей Дмитриевич		466
3	German (de) Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sacharow		223
4	French (fr) Andreï Sakharov		197
5	Italian (it) Andrej Dmitrievič Sacharov		117
6	Dutch (nl) Andrej Sacharov		98
7	Hebrew (he) אנדריי סחרוב		85
8	Polish (pl) Andriej Sacharow		82
9	Spanish (es) Andréi Sájarov		74
10	Ukrainian (uk) Сахаров Андрій Дмитрович		65

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) Andrei Sakharov		6
2	Russian (ru) Сахаров, Андрей Дмитриевич		3
3	Hindi (hi) आंद्रेई सखारोव		2
4	Serbian (sr) Андреј Сахаров		2
5	Catalan (ca) Andrei Sàkharov		1
6	Spanish (es) Andréi Sájarov		1
7	Finnish (fi) Andrei Saharov		1
8	Hebrew (he) אנדריי סחרוב		1
9	Arabic (ar) أندريه ساخاروف		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Andrey Saxarov		0

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

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