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, 2026). The article contains 426 references and 40 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 156^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 177^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 52^nd most popular in all topics.

The 45^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 782^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2081^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 362^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 494^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Soviet Union” was edited by 16 authors in English Wikipedia (2081^st place) and written by 87 authors in all languages (494^th place).

Since the creation of article “Soviet Union”, its content was written by 3054 registered users of English Wikipedia (177^th place) and edited by 14861 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (45^th place).

The article is cited 103400 times in English Wikipedia (84^th place) and cited 1291714 times in all languages (59^th 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: #11 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, 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sovjetunionen		100
2	Armenian (hy) Խորհրդային Սոցիալիստական Հանրապետությունների Միություն		95.2426
3	Portuguese (pt) União Soviética		94.3673
4	Catalan (ca) Unió de Repúbliques Socialistes Soviètiques		93.2659
5	Esperanto (eo) Sovetunio		93.1794
6	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		92.3227
7	Thai (th) สหภาพโซเวียต		90.6321
8	Czech (cs) Sovětský svaz		90.1534
9	Slovak (sk) Sovietsky zväz		88.5856
10	Polish (pl) Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich		87.0177

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Soviet Union		91 825 616
2	Russian (ru) Союз Советских Социалистических Республик		39 548 629
3	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		24 236 181
4	German (de) Sowjetunion		15 410 736
5	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦		11 961 749
6	French (fr) Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques		9 777 818
7	Portuguese (pt) União Soviética		9 264 211
8	Polish (pl) Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich		8 486 471
9	Italian (it) Unione Sovietica		7 822 015
10	Chinese (zh) 苏联		7 639 085

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		282 102
2	Russian (ru) Союз Советских Социалистических Республик		104 138
3	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦		52 231
4	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		45 727
5	German (de) Sowjetunion		36 553
6	Persian (fa) اتحاد جماهیر شوروی		29 366
7	French (fr) Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques		24 624
8	Chinese (zh) 苏联		23 600
9	Italian (it) Unione Sovietica		21 201
10	Polish (pl) Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich		19 075

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		3 054
2	Russian (ru) Союз Советских Социалистических Республик		1 029
3	French (fr) Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques		798
4	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		791
5	German (de) Sowjetunion		771
6	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦		613
7	Chinese (zh) 苏联		576
8	Polish (pl) Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich		536
9	Italian (it) Unione Sovietica		525
10	Portuguese (pt) União Soviética		380

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		16
2	Spanish (es) Unión Soviética		15
3	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦		9
4	Basque (eu) Sobietar Errepublika Sozialisten Batasuna		7
5	Italian (it) Unione Sovietica		5
6	Chinese (zh) 苏联		4
7	Hungarian (hu) Szovjetunió		3
8	Russian (ru) Союз Советских Социалистических Республик		3
9	Turkish (tr) Sovyetler Birliği		3
10	Arabic (ar) الاتحاد السوفيتي		2

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

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