Spetsnaz GRU

Special Forces of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - elite military formation under the control of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Article “Spetsnaz GRU” in English Wikipedia has 70 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 54 references and 10 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Spetsnaz GRU” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Spetsnaz GRU”, its content was written by 158 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 371 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 480 times in English Wikipedia and cited 904 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10249 in June 2012
• Global: #30975 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20366 in March 2022
• Global: #18325 in March 2022

There are 9 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	English (en) Spetsnaz GRU		70.0277
2	Chinese (zh) 格魯烏特種部隊		44.9316
3	German (de) GRU Speznas		37.6661
4	Vietnamese (vi) Spetsnaz GRU		24.5469
5	French (fr) Forces spéciales de la direction principale de l'état-major général des forces armées russes		23.8851
6	Estonian (et) GRU Spetsnaz		20.4836
7	Korean (ko) 스페츠나츠 GRU		19.7819
8	Portuguese (pt) Spetsnaz (GRU)		16.7891
9	Greek (el) Σπετσνάζ		4.643

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Spetsnaz GRU" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) GRU Speznas		1 810 658
2	English (en) Spetsnaz GRU		1 219 988
3	Chinese (zh) 格魯烏特種部隊		71 890
4	French (fr) Forces spéciales de la direction principale de l'état-major général des forces armées russes		28 616
5	Korean (ko) 스페츠나츠 GRU		8 039
6	Estonian (et) GRU Spetsnaz		6 371
7	Portuguese (pt) Spetsnaz (GRU)		3 416
8	Greek (el) Σπετσνάζ		1 920
9	Vietnamese (vi) Spetsnaz GRU		1 790

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Spetsnaz GRU" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spetsnaz GRU		15 765
2	German (de) GRU Speznas		3 023
3	Chinese (zh) 格魯烏特種部隊		612
4	French (fr) Forces spéciales de la direction principale de l'état-major général des forces armées russes		489
5	Portuguese (pt) Spetsnaz (GRU)		195
6	Vietnamese (vi) Spetsnaz GRU		75
7	Greek (el) Σπετσνάζ		34
8	Estonian (et) GRU Spetsnaz		31
9	Korean (ko) 스페츠나츠 GRU		22

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

Language versions of the article "Spetsnaz GRU" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) GRU Speznas		171
2	English (en) Spetsnaz GRU		158
3	Chinese (zh) 格魯烏特種部隊		12
4	Estonian (et) GRU Spetsnaz		9
5	French (fr) Forces spéciales de la direction principale de l'état-major général des forces armées russes		8
6	Greek (el) Σπετσνάζ		6
7	Vietnamese (vi) Spetsnaz GRU		3
8	Korean (ko) 스페츠나츠 GRU		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Spetsnaz (GRU)		2

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

Language versions of the article "Spetsnaz GRU" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spetsnaz GRU		2
2	German (de) GRU Speznas		1
3	Greek (el) Σπετσνάζ		0
4	Estonian (et) GRU Spetsnaz		0
5	French (fr) Forces spéciales de la direction principale de l'état-major général des forces armées russes		0
6	Korean (ko) 스페츠나츠 GRU		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Spetsnaz (GRU)		0
8	Vietnamese (vi) Spetsnaz GRU		0
9	Chinese (zh) 格魯烏特種部隊		0

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

Language versions of the article "Spetsnaz GRU" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Spetsnaz GRU		480
2	French (fr) Forces spéciales de la direction principale de l'état-major général des forces armées russes		252
3	German (de) GRU Speznas		93
4	Chinese (zh) 格魯烏特種部隊		38
5	Vietnamese (vi) Spetsnaz GRU		20
6	Estonian (et) GRU Spetsnaz		10
7	Korean (ko) 스페츠나츠 GRU		5
8	Portuguese (pt) Spetsnaz (GRU)		4
9	Greek (el) Σπετσνάζ		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German GRU Speznas
el	Greek Σπετσνάζ
en	English Spetsnaz GRU
et	Estonian GRU Spetsnaz
fr	French Forces spéciales de la direction principale de l'état-major général des forces armées russes
ko	Korean 스페츠나츠 GRU
pt	Portuguese Spetsnaz (GRU)
vi	Vietnamese Spetsnaz GRU
zh	Chinese 格魯烏特種部隊

Best Rank

English: #20366 03.2022

Global: #18325 03.2022

Best Rank

English: #10249 06.2012

Global: #30975 09.2022

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