First Chechen War

Quality:

First Chechen War - war fought from 1994 to 1996 in Chechnya. This event is the 182^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 585^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “First Chechen War” in English Wikipedia has 78.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 105 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.71 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:

English Wikipedia:

The 585^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8082^nd most popular in all topics.

The 9188^th most popular in AI.

The 182^nd most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “First Chechen War” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “First Chechen War”, its content was written by 609 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2679 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9188^th place).

First Chechen War is on the 585^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 182^nd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1724 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10065 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1528 in December 2023
• Global: #977 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #620 in March 2022
• Global: #129 in March 2022

There are 47 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) Первая чеченская война		94.8641
2	Esperanto (eo) Unua Ĉeĉenia milito		93.75
3	Armenian (hy) Չեչենական առաջին պատերազմ		92.2222
4	English (en) First Chechen War		78.3852
5	Ukrainian (uk) Перша російсько-чеченська війна		78.3834
6	Estonian (et) Esimene Tšetšeenia sõda		70.3802
7	Belarusian (be) Першая чачэнская вайна		66.5677
8	Urdu (ur) پہلی چیچن جنگ		65.7866
9	French (fr) Première guerre de Tchétchénie		60.4197
10	Croatian (hr) Prvi čečenski rat		59.3734

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Первая чеченская война		15 639 031
2	English (en) First Chechen War		6 830 112
3	German (de) Erster Tschetschenienkrieg		1 193 699
4	Spanish (es) Primera guerra chechena		911 852
5	Ukrainian (uk) Перша російсько-чеченська війна		861 217
6	Polish (pl) I wojna czeczeńska		827 589
7	French (fr) Première guerre de Tchétchénie		797 503
8	Japanese (ja) 第一次チェチェン紛争		777 224
9	Chinese (zh) 第一次車臣戰爭		643 982
10	Turkish (tr) Birinci Çeçen Savaşı		546 755

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) Первая чеченская война		40 541
2	English (en) First Chechen War		27 501
3	German (de) Erster Tschetschenienkrieg		2 494
4	Chinese (zh) 第一次車臣戰爭		2 416
5	Japanese (ja) 第一次チェチェン紛争		2 246
6	Turkish (tr) Birinci Çeçen Savaşı		2 175
7	French (fr) Première guerre de Tchétchénie		2 164
8	Polish (pl) I wojna czeczeńska		2 036
9	Ukrainian (uk) Перша російсько-чеченська війна		1 943
10	Spanish (es) Primera guerra chechena		1 694

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) First Chechen War		609
2	Russian (ru) Первая чеченская война		436
3	German (de) Erster Tschetschenienkrieg		191
4	French (fr) Première guerre de Tchétchénie		158
5	Ukrainian (uk) Перша російсько-чеченська війна		112
6	Italian (it) Prima guerra cecena		111
7	Spanish (es) Primera guerra chechena		78
8	Hebrew (he) מלחמת צ'צ'ניה הראשונה		73
9	Chinese (zh) 第一次車臣戰爭		72
10	Japanese (ja) 第一次チェチェン紛争		69

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) First Chechen War		2
2	Catalan (ca) Primera guerra de Txetxènia		1
3	Basque (eu) Lehen Txetxeniako Gerra		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Első csecsen háború		1
5	Dutch (nl) Eerste Tsjetsjeense Oorlog		1
6	Turkish (tr) Birinci Çeçen Savaşı		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chiến tranh Chechnya lần thứ nhất		1
8	Arabic (ar) الحرب الشيشانية الأولى		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Birinci Çeçenistan müharibəsi		0
10	Belarusian (be) Першая чачэнская вайна		0

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

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