Soviet Union

Quality:

Soviet Union - former country in Eurasia (1922–1991). Article “Soviet Union” in English Wikipedia has 85 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 386 references and 36 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.44 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 158^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 191^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 54^th most popular in all topics.

The 48^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 450^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 1405^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 162^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 403^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Soviet Union” was edited by 22 authors in English Wikipedia (1405^th place) and written by 95 authors in all languages (403^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Soviet Union”, its content was written by 2930 registered users of English Wikipedia (191^st place) and edited by 14475 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (48^th place).

The article is cited 100818 times in English Wikipedia (91^st place) and cited 1228140 times in all languages (62^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #92 in April 2004
• Global: #35 in September 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20 in February 2022
• Global: #10 in March 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, 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sovjetunionen		100
2	Polish (pl) Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich		97.1606
3	Armenian (hy) Խորհրդային Սոցիալիստական Հանրապետությունների Միություն		95.3128
4	Esperanto (eo) Sovetunio		94.5837
5	Portuguese (pt) União Soviética		94.1831
6	Catalan (ca) Unió de Repúbliques Socialistes Soviètiques		93.1229
7	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		93.0657
8	Finnish (fi) Neuvostoliitto		91.218
9	Thai (th) สหภาพโซเวียต		90.7057
10	Turkish (tr) Sovyetler Birliği		85.4302

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Soviet Union		87 568 440
2	Russian (ru) Союз Советских Социалистических Республик		36 379 147
3	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		23 612 885
4	German (de) Sowjetunion		14 861 485
5	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦		11 271 819
6	French (fr) Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques		9 363 589
7	Portuguese (pt) União Soviética		9 047 037
8	Polish (pl) Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich		8 180 017
9	Italian (it) Unione Sovietica		7 513 037
10	Chinese (zh) 苏联		7 214 845

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) Soviet Union		383 598
2	Russian (ru) Союз Советских Социалистических Республик		174 444
3	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦		64 048
4	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		54 083
5	German (de) Sowjetunion		40 326
6	Chinese (zh) 苏联		37 133
7	French (fr) Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques		31 381
8	Persian (fa) اتحاد جماهیر شوروی		29 357
9	Italian (it) Unione Sovietica		26 841
10	Portuguese (pt) União Soviética		24 164

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Soviet Union		2 930
2	Russian (ru) Союз Советских Социалистических Республик		1 007
3	French (fr) Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques		778
4	German (de) Sowjetunion		761
5	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		750
6	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦		569
7	Chinese (zh) 苏联		562
8	Polish (pl) Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich		520
9	Italian (it) Unione Sovietica		511
10	Portuguese (pt) União Soviética		362

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) Soviet Union		22
2	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦		10
3	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		6
4	Ukrainian (uk) Союз Радянських Соціалістичних Республік		6
5	Arabic (ar) الاتحاد السوفيتي		5
6	Russian (ru) Союз Советских Социалистических Республик		5
7	Persian (fa) اتحاد جماهیر شوروی		4
8	Korean (ko) 소련		4
9	Italian (it) Unione Sovietica		3
10	Dutch (nl) Sovjet-Unie		3

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

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