Boris Yeltsin

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Boris Yeltsin - Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007). This person is the 814^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 981^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Boris Yeltsin” in Simple English Wikipedia has 33.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7277^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4092^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 981^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2570^th most popular in all topics.

The 1153^rd most popular in AI.

The 814^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2141^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2802^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4411^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Boris Yeltsin”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4092^nd place) and edited by 6064 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1153^rd place).

Boris Yeltsin is on the 981^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 814^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 81 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19989 times in all languages (8302^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #85 in January 2018
• Global: #6 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #814 in March 2022
• Global: #67 in March 2022

There are 55 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) Boris Yeltsin		98.1834
2	Russian (ru) Ельцин, Борис Николаевич		97.4398
3	Chinese (zh) 鲍里斯·叶利钦		80.8313
4	Catalan (ca) Borís Ieltsin		68.4281
5	Spanish (es) Borís Yeltsin		67.0561
6	Bulgarian (bg) Борис Елцин		66.8302
7	Turkish (tr) Boris Yeltsin		62.7689
8	Polish (pl) Boris Jelcyn		61.7463
9	Czech (cs) Boris Jelcin		60.5257
10	Portuguese (pt) Boris Iéltsin		58.8867

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boris Yeltsin		18 572 084
2	Russian (ru) Ельцин, Борис Николаевич		14 997 390
3	German (de) Boris Nikolajewitsch Jelzin		3 323 759
4	Spanish (es) Borís Yeltsin		2 672 554
5	French (fr) Boris Eltsine		2 529 214
6	Polish (pl) Boris Jelcyn		2 028 154
7	Japanese (ja) ボリス・エリツィン		1 954 593
8	Italian (it) Boris Nikolaevič El'cin		1 718 314
9	Chinese (zh) 鲍里斯·叶利钦		1 401 316
10	Portuguese (pt) Boris Iéltsin		1 031 237

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) Boris Yeltsin		90 374
2	Russian (ru) Ельцин, Борис Николаевич		57 149
3	Spanish (es) Borís Yeltsin		10 841
4	French (fr) Boris Eltsine		9 419
5	German (de) Boris Nikolajewitsch Jelzin		9 376
6	Italian (it) Boris Nikolaevič El'cin		8 066
7	Chinese (zh) 鲍里斯·叶利钦		6 763
8	Japanese (ja) ボリス・エリツィン		6 467
9	Polish (pl) Boris Jelcyn		6 010
10	Portuguese (pt) Boris Iéltsin		5 050

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Boris Yeltsin		1 402
2	Russian (ru) Ельцин, Борис Николаевич		778
3	German (de) Boris Nikolajewitsch Jelzin		355
4	French (fr) Boris Eltsine		324
5	Italian (it) Boris Nikolaevič El'cin		209
6	Chinese (zh) 鲍里斯·叶利钦		202
7	Spanish (es) Borís Yeltsin		199
8	Dutch (nl) Boris Jeltsin		175
9	Polish (pl) Boris Jelcyn		167
10	Japanese (ja) ボリス・エリツィン		133

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) Boris Yeltsin		11
2	Ukrainian (uk) Єльцин Борис Миколайович		4
3	Italian (it) Boris Nikolaevič El'cin		3
4	Japanese (ja) ボリス・エリツィン		3
5	Russian (ru) Ельцин, Борис Николаевич		2
6	Turkish (tr) Boris Yeltsin		2
7	Czech (cs) Boris Jelcin		1
8	Greek (el) Μπορίς Γέλτσιν		1
9	Spanish (es) Borís Yeltsin		1
10	Persian (fa) بوریس یلتسین		1

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

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