Varlam Chalamov

Varlam Shalamov - Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor. Article “Varlam Chalamov” in French Wikipedia has 51.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 84 references and 16 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Varlam Chalamov”, its content was written by 112 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1104 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 217 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1513 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #1439 in August 2020
• Global: #7984 in August 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #15670 in February 2020
• Global: #34388 in November 2009

There are 36 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) Шаламов, Варлам Тихонович		98.4615
2	Swedish (sv) Varlam Sjalamov		57.8891
3	French (fr) Varlam Chalamov		51.5583
4	English (en) Varlam Shalamov		49.7591
5	German (de) Warlam Tichonowitsch Schalamow		49.1242
6	Armenian (hy) Վառլամ Շալամով		45.9849
7	Slovak (sk) Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov		41.8538
8	Greek (el) Βαρλαάμ Σαλάμοφ		36.9837
9	Ukrainian (uk) Шаламов Варлам Тихонович		35.811
10	Japanese (ja) ヴァルラーム・シャラーモフ		33.5735

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Varlam Chalamov" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Шаламов, Варлам Тихонович		2 990 718
2	English (en) Varlam Shalamov		478 948
3	French (fr) Varlam Chalamov		217 486
4	Italian (it) Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov		177 578
5	Polish (pl) Warłam Szałamow		140 390
6	German (de) Warlam Tichonowitsch Schalamow		140 270
7	Spanish (es) Varlam Shalámov		72 670
8	Ukrainian (uk) Шаламов Варлам Тихонович		33 120
9	Hungarian (hu) Varlam Tyihonovics Salamov		30 810
10	Japanese (ja) ヴァルラーム・シャラーモフ		29 581

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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 "Varlam Chalamov" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Шаламов, Варлам Тихонович		12 680
2	English (en) Varlam Shalamov		2 743
3	German (de) Warlam Tichonowitsch Schalamow		848
4	French (fr) Varlam Chalamov		760
5	Polish (pl) Warłam Szałamow		494
6	Italian (it) Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov		414
7	Spanish (es) Varlam Shalámov		222
8	Ukrainian (uk) Шаламов Варлам Тихонович		180
9	Japanese (ja) ヴァルラーム・シャラーモフ		158
10	Czech (cs) Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov		131

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Шаламов, Варлам Тихонович		237
2	English (en) Varlam Shalamov		131
3	German (de) Warlam Tichonowitsch Schalamow		113
4	French (fr) Varlam Chalamov		112
5	Italian (it) Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov		68
6	Hungarian (hu) Varlam Tyihonovics Salamov		48
7	Hebrew (he) וארלאם שאלאמוב		35
8	Polish (pl) Warłam Szałamow		35
9	Swedish (sv) Varlam Sjalamov		32
10	Czech (cs) Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov		30

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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 "Varlam Chalamov" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Swedish (sv) Varlam Sjalamov		2
2	Catalan (ca) Varlam Xalàmov		1
3	German (de) Warlam Tichonowitsch Schalamow		1
4	English (en) Varlam Shalamov		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Varlam Şalamov		0
6	Belarusian (be) Варлам Ціханавіч Шаламаў		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Варлам Шаламов		0
8	Czech (cs) Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov		0
9	Greek (el) Βαρλαάμ Σαλάμοφ		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Varlam Tiĥonoviĉ Ŝalamov		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 "Varlam Chalamov" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) Шаламов, Варлам Тихонович		318
2	English (en) Varlam Shalamov		286
3	French (fr) Varlam Chalamov		217
4	Hungarian (hu) Varlam Tyihonovics Salamov		176
5	Catalan (ca) Varlam Xalàmov		82
6	German (de) Warlam Tichonowitsch Schalamow		57
7	Ukrainian (uk) Шаламов Варлам Тихонович		41
8	Italian (it) Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov		37
9	Polish (pl) Warłam Szałamow		34
10	Persian (fa) وارلام شالاموف		29

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Varlam Şalamov
be	Belarusian Варлам Ціханавіч Шаламаў
bg	Bulgarian Варлам Шаламов
ca	Catalan Varlam Xalàmov
cs	Czech Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov
de	German Warlam Tichonowitsch Schalamow
el	Greek Βαρλαάμ Σαλάμοφ
en	English Varlam Shalamov
eo	Esperanto Varlam Tiĥonoviĉ Ŝalamov
es	Spanish Varlam Shalámov
et	Estonian Varlam Šalamov
eu	Basque Varlam Xalamov
fa	Persian وارلام شالاموف
fi	Finnish Varlam Šalamov
fr	French Varlam Chalamov
he	Hebrew וארלאם שאלאמוב
hu	Hungarian Varlam Tyihonovics Salamov
hy	Armenian Վառլամ Շալամով
id	Indonesian Varlam Shalamov
it	Italian Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov
ja	Japanese ヴァルラーム・シャラーモフ
ka	Georgian ვარლამ შალამოვი
ko	Korean 바를람 샬라모프
la	Latin Barlaam Šalamov
lt	Lithuanian Varlamas Šalamovas
nl	Dutch Varlam Sjalamov
pl	Polish Warłam Szałamow
pt	Portuguese Varlam Shalamov
ro	Romanian Varlam Șalamov
ru	Russian Шаламов, Варлам Тихонович
sk	Slovak Varlam Tichonovič Šalamov
sr	Serbian Варлам Шаламов
sv	Swedish Varlam Sjalamov
uk	Ukrainian Шаламов Варлам Тихонович
vi	Vietnamese Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov
zh	Chinese 瓦尔拉姆·沙拉莫夫

Best Rank

French: #15670 02.2020

Global: #34388 11.2009

Best Rank

French: #1439 08.2020

Global: #7984 08.2020

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