The Ugly Swans

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The Ugly Swans

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The Ugly Swans - 1967 science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This book is the 8630th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Ugly Swans” in English Wikipedia has 15.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 6 sections.

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:
Global Wikipedia:
The 8630th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Ugly Swans”, its content was written by 32 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 119 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Ugly Swans is on the 8630th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 37 times in English Wikipedia and cited 196 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #117855 in December 2015
  • Global: #139812 in August 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #643570 in March 2012
  • Global: #237758 in September 2023

There are 7 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Russian (ru)
Гадкие лебеди (повесть)
77.2563
2English (en)
The Ugly Swans
15.6131
3Italian (it)
Brutti cigni
14.9197
4Armenian (hy)
Անճոռնի կարապները
10.3744
5Ukrainian (uk)
Гидкі лебеді
6.9858
6Czech (cs)
Ošklivá káčátka
5.6115
7French (fr)
Les Mutants du brouillard
4.1178
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "The Ugly Swans" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Russian (ru)
Гадкие лебеди (повесть)
507 231
2English (en)
The Ugly Swans
61 718
3French (fr)
Les Mutants du brouillard
8 851
4Ukrainian (uk)
Гидкі лебеді
2 583
5Czech (cs)
Ošklivá káčátka
2 075
6Italian (it)
Brutti cigni
1 278
7Armenian (hy)
Անճոռնի կարապները
256
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "The Ugly Swans" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Russian (ru)
Гадкие лебеди (повесть)
2 858
2English (en)
The Ugly Swans
569
3Ukrainian (uk)
Гидкі лебеді
49
4French (fr)
Les Mutants du brouillard
25
5Italian (it)
Brutti cigni
21
6Czech (cs)
Ošklivá káčátka
14
7Armenian (hy)
Անճոռնի կարապները
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "The Ugly Swans" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Гадкие лебеди (повесть)
56
2English (en)
The Ugly Swans
32
3French (fr)
Les Mutants du brouillard
10
4Ukrainian (uk)
Гидкі лебеді
8
5Armenian (hy)
Անճոռնի կարապները
6
6Italian (it)
Brutti cigni
4
7Czech (cs)
Ošklivá káčátka
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "The Ugly Swans" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
Ošklivá káčátka
0
2English (en)
The Ugly Swans
0
3French (fr)
Les Mutants du brouillard
0
4Armenian (hy)
Անճոռնի կարապները
0
5Italian (it)
Brutti cigni
0
6Russian (ru)
Гадкие лебеди (повесть)
0
7Ukrainian (uk)
Гидкі лебеді
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "The Ugly Swans" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Russian (ru)
Гадкие лебеди (повесть)
82
2Ukrainian (uk)
Гидкі лебеді
51
3English (en)
The Ugly Swans
37
4French (fr)
Les Mutants du brouillard
20
5Czech (cs)
Ošklivá káčátka
3
6Italian (it)
Brutti cigni
3
7Armenian (hy)
Անճոռնի կարապները
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Ošklivá káčátka
enEnglish
The Ugly Swans
frFrench
Les Mutants du brouillard
hyArmenian
Անճոռնի կարապները
itItalian
Brutti cigni
ruRussian
Гадкие лебеди (повесть)
ukUkrainian
Гидкі лебеді

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#643570
03.2012
Global:
#237758
09.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#117855
12.2015
Global:
#139812
08.2023

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Ugly Swans from Wikipedia articles about Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, The Ugly Swans, Lame Fate, Mikhail Borzykin and Boris Strugatsky. Whereas reading the article about The Ugly Swans people most often go to Wikipedia articles on The Ugly Swans, Lame Fate, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Leper colony and Konstantin Lopushansky.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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