Valeri Legasov

Quality:

Valery Legasov - Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988). This person is the 4930^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Valeri Legasov” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 42 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 39 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4930^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Valeri Legasov”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 946 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Valery Legasov is on the 4930^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 39 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 617 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #1369 in June 2019
• Global: #105 in June 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #240 in June 2019
• Global: #12 in June 2019

There are 38 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	English (en) Valery Legasov		88.6525
2	Uzbek (uz) Valeriy Legasov		64.0534
3	French (fr) Valeri Legassov		52.5358
4	Turkish (tr) Valeri Legasov		48.8267
5	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		47.7362
6	Vietnamese (vi) Valery Alekseyevich Legasov		45.9649
7	Georgian (ka) ვალერი ლეგასოვი		43.9793
8	Portuguese (pt) Valeri Legasov		42.0139
9	Catalan (ca) Valeri Legàssov		39.5387
10	Basque (eu) Valeri Legasov		39.0794

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Valery Legasov		8 131 479
2	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		4 156 814
3	Spanish (es) Valeri Legásov		1 347 307
4	German (de) Waleri Alexejewitsch Legassow		1 093 471
5	French (fr) Valeri Legassov		754 225
6	Italian (it) Valerij Alekseevič Legasov		651 062
7	Polish (pl) Walerij Legasow		515 295
8	Czech (cs) Valerij Legasov		314 964
9	Portuguese (pt) Valeri Legasov		309 034
10	Ukrainian (uk) Легасов Валерій Олексійович		243 280

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) Valery Legasov		47 899
2	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		14 042
3	German (de) Waleri Alexejewitsch Legassow		8 484
4	Spanish (es) Valeri Legásov		5 109
5	French (fr) Valeri Legassov		3 311
6	Italian (it) Valerij Alekseevič Legasov		2 482
7	Ukrainian (uk) Легасов Валерій Олексійович		2 272
8	Polish (pl) Walerij Legasow		2 205
9	Portuguese (pt) Valeri Legasov		1 992
10	Czech (cs) Valerij Legasov		1 380

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Valery Legasov		220
2	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		126
3	German (de) Waleri Alexejewitsch Legassow		67
4	French (fr) Valeri Legassov		66
5	Spanish (es) Valeri Legásov		55
6	Italian (it) Valerij Alekseevič Legasov		48
7	Ukrainian (uk) Легасов Валерій Олексійович		35
8	Persian (fa) والری لگاسف		34
9	Czech (cs) Valerij Legasov		29
10	Polish (pl) Walerij Legasow		28

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) Valery Legasov		4
2	Czech (cs) Valerij Legasov		3
3	Arabic (ar) فاليري ليجاسوف		1
4	Estonian (et) Valeri Legassov		1
5	Basque (eu) Valeri Legasov		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Valerij Alekszejevics Legaszov		1
7	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Легасов Валерій Олексійович		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Valery Alekseyevich Legasov		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Valeri Leqasov		0

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

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