Vij

Viy - 1835 horror novella by Nikolai Gogol. This book is the 1230^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 219^th most popular book in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. Article “Vij” in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has 2.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Russian.

Since the creation of article “Vij”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and edited by 379 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Viy is on the 219^th place in local ranking of books in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and on the 1230^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia and cited 673 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #2025 in January 2018
• Global: #27593 in February 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Serbo-Croatian): #3240 in December 2019
• Global: #3170 in February 2014

There are 16 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) Viy (story)		66.3415
2	Portuguese (pt) Viy (história)		57.1897
3	Arabic (ar) فيي (رواية)		43.2501
4	Greek (el) Ο Βίι (Γκόγκολ)		29.8638
5	Italian (it) Vij (racconto)		29.5843
6	Romanian (ro) Vii (povestire)		28.4328
7	Russian (ru) Вий		25.3463
8	French (fr) Vij		18.21
9	Ukrainian (uk) Вій (повість)		16.5954
10	Serbian (sr) Виј (приповетка)		11.7148

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Вий		3 370 670
2	English (en) Viy (story)		758 402
3	Ukrainian (uk) Вій (повість)		92 703
4	German (de) Wij		92 398
5	Spanish (es) El viyi		78 991
6	Italian (it) Vij (racconto)		52 904
7	French (fr) Vij		40 176
8	Czech (cs) Vij		20 681
9	Portuguese (pt) Viy (história)		16 300
10	Serbian (sr) Виј (приповетка)		11 677

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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 "Vij" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Вий		5 205
2	English (en) Viy (story)		4 499
3	Ukrainian (uk) Вій (повість)		553
4	German (de) Wij		338
5	Italian (it) Vij (racconto)		286
6	Spanish (es) El viyi		267
7	Portuguese (pt) Viy (história)		217
8	French (fr) Vij		193
9	Serbian (sr) Виј (приповетка)		142
10	Czech (cs) Vij		62

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Viy (story)		139
2	Russian (ru) Вий		76
3	French (fr) Vij		37
4	German (de) Wij		31
5	Ukrainian (uk) Вій (повість)		26
6	Italian (it) Vij (racconto)		17
7	Czech (cs) Vij		15
8	Spanish (es) El viyi		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Viy (história)		8
10	Serbian (sr) Виј (приповетка)		6

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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 "Vij" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Вий		4
2	Arabic (ar) فيي (رواية)		3
3	English (en) Viy (story)		2
4	Czech (cs) Vij		0
5	German (de) Wij		0
6	Greek (el) Ο Βίι (Γκόγκολ)		0
7	Spanish (es) El viyi		0
8	French (fr) Vij		0
9	Italian (it) Vij (racconto)		0
10	Kazakh (kk) Вий		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 "Vij" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) Вий		351
2	Ukrainian (uk) Вій (повість)		99
3	English (en) Viy (story)		56
4	French (fr) Vij		44
5	Greek (el) Ο Βίι (Γκόγκολ)		27
6	Serbian (sr) Виј (приповетка)		18
7	German (de) Wij		17
8	Italian (it) Vij (racconto)		17
9	Spanish (es) El viyi		10
10	Czech (cs) Vij		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فيي (رواية)
cs	Czech Vij
de	German Wij
el	Greek Ο Βίι (Γκόγκολ)
en	English Viy (story)
es	Spanish El viyi
fr	French Vij
it	Italian Vij (racconto)
kk	Kazakh Вий
ko	Korean 비이 (소설)
pt	Portuguese Viy (história)
ro	Romanian Vii (povestire)
ru	Russian Вий
sh	Serbo-Croatian Vij
sr	Serbian Виј (приповетка)
uk	Ukrainian Вій (повість)

Best Rank

Serbo-Croatian: #3240 12.2019

Global: #3170 02.2014

Best Rank

Serbo-Croatian: #2025 01.2018

Global: #27593 02.2015

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