Балласт (путевое хозяйство)

Track ballast - trackbed upon which railroad ties are laid. Article “Балласт (путевое хозяйство)” in Russian Wikipedia has 8.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.45 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Балласт (путевое хозяйство)”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 372 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 60 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 1634 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #45102 in November 2010
• Global: #34383 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #44332 in January 2010
• Global: #99936 in June 2016

There are 20 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) Track ballast		47.9591
2	Indonesian (id) Kricak		31.2425
3	Simple English (simple) Track ballast		26.1697
4	Spanish (es) Balasto		23.0653
5	Turkish (tr) Balast (demiryolu)		23.0468
6	Arabic (ar) حصى سكك حديدية		22.3658
7	French (fr) Ballast (chemin de fer)		21.4893
8	Portuguese (pt) Balastro (caminho de ferro)		18.0433
9	Swedish (sv) Ballast (järnvägsspår)		16.9131
10	Galician (gl) Balastro		15.7898

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Балласт (путевое хозяйство)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Track ballast		1 144 620
2	Spanish (es) Balasto		564 230
3	Japanese (ja) バラスト軌道		467 473
4	French (fr) Ballast (chemin de fer)		326 597
5	Chinese (zh) 道碴		148 009
6	Russian (ru) Балласт (путевое хозяйство)		109 979
7	Indonesian (id) Kricak		53 085
8	Portuguese (pt) Balastro (caminho de ferro)		37 061
9	Swedish (sv) Ballast (järnvägsspår)		34 559
10	Persian (fa) پارسنگ		32 929

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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 "Балласт (путевое хозяйство)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Track ballast		4 514
2	Spanish (es) Balasto		1 670
3	French (fr) Ballast (chemin de fer)		1 525
4	Japanese (ja) バラスト軌道		1 088
5	Chinese (zh) 道碴		637
6	Russian (ru) Балласт (путевое хозяйство)		298
7	Italian (it) Ballast (ferrovia)		291
8	Swedish (sv) Ballast (järnvägsspår)		143
9	Indonesian (id) Kricak		136
10	Turkish (tr) Balast (demiryolu)		117

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Track ballast		99
2	French (fr) Ballast (chemin de fer)		51
3	Japanese (ja) バラスト軌道		38
4	Spanish (es) Balasto		35
5	Chinese (zh) 道碴		25
6	Swedish (sv) Ballast (järnvägsspår)		16
7	Hebrew (he) רבד		14
8	Russian (ru) Балласт (путевое хозяйство)		14
9	Portuguese (pt) Balastro (caminho de ferro)		12
10	Hungarian (hu) Ágyazat		11

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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 "Балласт (путевое хозяйство)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) バラスト軌道		1
2	Arabic (ar) حصى سكك حديدية		0
3	Belarusian (be) Баласт (пуцявая гаспадарка)		0
4	Catalan (ca) Balast		0
5	English (en) Track ballast		0
6	Spanish (es) Balasto		0
7	Persian (fa) پارسنگ		0
8	French (fr) Ballast (chemin de fer)		0
9	Galician (gl) Balastro		0
10	Hebrew (he) רבד		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 "Балласт (путевое хозяйство)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Track ballast		401
2	Chinese (zh) 道碴		264
3	French (fr) Ballast (chemin de fer)		253
4	Japanese (ja) バラスト軌道		186
5	Indonesian (id) Kricak		129
6	Portuguese (pt) Balastro (caminho de ferro)		106
7	Spanish (es) Balasto		84
8	Russian (ru) Балласт (путевое хозяйство)		60
9	Italian (it) Ballast (ferrovia)		44
10	Ukrainian (uk) Баласт (колійне господарство)		22

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حصى سكك حديدية
be	Belarusian Баласт (пуцявая гаспадарка)
ca	Catalan Balast
en	English Track ballast
es	Spanish Balasto
fa	Persian پارسنگ
fr	French Ballast (chemin de fer)
gl	Galician Balastro
he	Hebrew רבד
hu	Hungarian Ágyazat
id	Indonesian Kricak
it	Italian Ballast (ferrovia)
ja	Japanese バラスト軌道
pt	Portuguese Balastro (caminho de ferro)
ru	Russian Балласт (путевое хозяйство)
simple	Simple English Track ballast
sv	Swedish Ballast (järnvägsspår)
tr	Turkish Balast (demiryolu)
uk	Ukrainian Баласт (колійне господарство)
zh	Chinese 道碴

Best Rank

Russian: #44332 01.2010

Global: #99936 06.2016

Best Rank

Russian: #45102 11.2010

Global: #34383 01.2010

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