Russian language

Quality:

Russian - East Slavic language. Article “Russian language” in English Wikipedia has 85.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 258 references and 29 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.53 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4231^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1732^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1686^th most popular in all topics.

The 543^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8389^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4390^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5899^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Russian language” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5899^th place).

Since the creation of article “Russian language”, its content was written by 1663 registered users of English Wikipedia (1732^nd place) and edited by 7908 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (543^rd place).

The article is cited 106066 times in English Wikipedia (82^nd place) and cited 1096550 times in all languages (72^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #80 in August 2004
• Global: #63 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #828 in August 2010
• Global: #746 in April 2022

There are 55 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) Русский язык		98.0624
2	Latin (la) Lingua Russica		92.5
3	Esperanto (eo) Rusa lingvo		86.871
4	English (en) Russian language		85.7676
5	Persian (fa) زبان روسی		84.3109
6	Korean (ko) 러시아어		84.1367
7	Ukrainian (uk) Російська мова		79.2614
8	Turkish (tr) Rusça		76.3472
9	Portuguese (pt) Língua russa		72.6032
10	Estonian (et) Vene keel		71.8019

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Russian language		23 282 504
2	Russian (ru) Русский язык		17 698 915
3	Spanish (es) Idioma ruso		3 918 839
4	German (de) Russische Sprache		3 469 947
5	Japanese (ja) ロシア語		3 460 370
6	Polish (pl) Język rosyjski		1 968 534
7	French (fr) Russe		1 832 986
8	Italian (it) Lingua russa		1 823 526
9	Chinese (zh) 俄语		1 471 157
10	Portuguese (pt) Língua russa		1 341 956

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) Russian language		67 311
2	Russian (ru) Русский язык		38 830
3	Japanese (ja) ロシア語		8 835
4	German (de) Russische Sprache		7 399
5	Spanish (es) Idioma ruso		6 016
6	French (fr) Russe		4 405
7	Italian (it) Lingua russa		3 515
8	Chinese (zh) 俄语		3 444
9	Polish (pl) Język rosyjski		3 290
10	Ukrainian (uk) Російська мова		2 933

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Russian language		1 663
2	Russian (ru) Русский язык		860
3	German (de) Russische Sprache		465
4	French (fr) Russe		369
5	Italian (it) Lingua russa		275
6	Japanese (ja) ロシア語		254
7	Spanish (es) Idioma ruso		246
8	Dutch (nl) Russisch		217
9	Ukrainian (uk) Російська мова		215
10	Polish (pl) Język rosyjski		200

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) Russian language		5
2	Ukrainian (uk) Російська мова		3
3	Catalan (ca) Rus		2
4	Basque (eu) Errusiera		2
5	Persian (fa) زبان روسی		2
6	Finnish (fi) Venäjän kieli		2
7	Polish (pl) Język rosyjski		2
8	French (fr) Russe		1
9	Korean (ko) 러시아어		1
10	Russian (ru) Русский язык		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information