Valeri Legasov

Quality:

Valery Legasov - Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988). This person is the 5177^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Valeri Legasov” in Romanian Wikipedia has 27 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5177^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9034^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5941^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Valeri Legasov” was edited by 1 authors in Romanian Wikipedia and written by 27 authors in all languages (5941^st place).

Since the creation of article “Valeri Legasov”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Romanian Wikipedia and edited by 884 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Valery Legasov is on the 5177^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 12 times in Romanian Wikipedia and cited 656 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Romanian): #2372 in June 2019
• Global: #104 in June 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Romanian): #86 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, 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) Valery Legasov		86.9941
2	Uzbek (uz) Valeriy Legasov		63.9921
3	French (fr) Valeri Legassov		52.5928
4	Turkish (tr) Valeri Legasov		48.6712
5	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		47.2869
6	Vietnamese (vi) Valery Alekseyevich Legasov		46.2038
7	Georgian (ka) ვალერი ლეგასოვი		44.0476
8	Catalan (ca) Valeri Legàssov		39.5077
9	Basque (eu) Valeri Legasov		39.1945
10	Portuguese (pt) Valeri Legasov		38.8418

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Valery Legasov		7 289 046
2	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		3 855 530
3	Spanish (es) Valeri Legásov		1 237 793
4	German (de) Waleri Alexejewitsch Legassow		957 738
5	French (fr) Valeri Legassov		677 993
6	Italian (it) Valerij Alekseevič Legasov		605 363
7	Polish (pl) Walerij Legasow		467 512
8	Czech (cs) Valerij Legasov		286 257
9	Portuguese (pt) Valeri Legasov		271 255
10	Ukrainian (uk) Легасов Валерій Олексійович		214 180

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		58 473
2	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		20 528
3	Spanish (es) Valeri Legásov		9 313
4	German (de) Waleri Alexejewitsch Legassow		5 312
5	French (fr) Valeri Legassov		4 220
6	Portuguese (pt) Valeri Legasov		3 157
7	Polish (pl) Walerij Legasow		2 879
8	Persian (fa) والری لگاسف		2 563
9	Italian (it) Valerij Alekseevič Legasov		2 369
10	Ukrainian (uk) Легасов Валерій Олексійович		1 906

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		199
2	Russian (ru) Легасов, Валерий Алексеевич		120
3	German (de) Waleri Alexejewitsch Legassow		66
4	French (fr) Valeri Legassov		61
5	Spanish (es) Valeri Legásov		51
6	Italian (it) Valerij Alekseevič Legasov		46
7	Ukrainian (uk) Легасов Валерій Олексійович		35
8	Persian (fa) والری لگاسف		32
9	Czech (cs) Valerij Legasov		26
10	Polish (pl) Walerij Legasow		26

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	Polish (pl) Walerij Legasow		9
2	English (en) Valery Legasov		4
3	Italian (it) Valerij Alekseevič Legasov		3
4	Armenian (hy) Վալերի Լեգասով		2
5	Turkish (tr) Valeri Legasov		2
6	Czech (cs) Valerij Legasov		1
7	Spanish (es) Valeri Legásov		1
8	Japanese (ja) ヴァレリー・レガソフ		1
9	Georgian (ka) ვალერი ლეგასოვი		1
10	Romanian (ro) Valeri Legasov		1

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

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