Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Quality:

Dissolution of the Soviet Union - process leading to the late-1991 breakup of the USSR. Article “Dissolution of the Soviet Union” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2329^th most popular in all topics.

The 4611^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3089^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3313^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Dissolution of the Soviet Union”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3737 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4611^th place).

The article is cited 167 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 49470 times in all languages (3304^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2396 in February 2026
• Global: #501 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6527 in February 2008
• Global: #86 in February 2022

There are 50 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	Korean (ko) 소련의 붕괴		96.607
2	Ukrainian (uk) Розпад СРСР		94.138
3	Kazakh (kk) КСРО ыдырауы		92.3919
4	Greek (el) Διάλυση της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης		89.8316
5	English (en) Dissolution of the Soviet Union		85.2459
6	German (de) Zerfall der Sowjetunion		84
7	Urdu (ur) سوویت اتحاد کی تحلیل		83.1996
8	Portuguese (pt) Dissolução da União Soviética		82.9725
9	Armenian (hy) ԽՍՀՄ փլուզում		82.6782
10	Russian (ru) Распад СССР		70.461

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dissolution of the Soviet Union		17 442 933
2	Russian (ru) Распад СССР		15 375 699
3	Spanish (es) Disolución de la Unión Soviética		4 277 387
4	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦の崩壊		3 747 762
5	Chinese (zh) 苏联解体		3 425 384
6	Polish (pl) Rozpad ZSRR		2 442 268
7	German (de) Zerfall der Sowjetunion		2 294 138
8	French (fr) Dislocation de l'URSS		1 584 891
9	Italian (it) Dissoluzione dell'Unione Sovietica		1 283 140
10	Persian (fa) فروپاشی اتحاد جماهیر شوروی		1 273 733

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) Dissolution of the Soviet Union		83 611
2	Russian (ru) Распад СССР		36 777
3	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦の崩壊		13 153
4	Spanish (es) Disolución de la Unión Soviética		11 182
5	Chinese (zh) 苏联解体		10 487
6	Persian (fa) فروپاشی اتحاد جماهیر شوروی		9 899
7	German (de) Zerfall der Sowjetunion		8 635
8	French (fr) Dislocation de l'URSS		6 576
9	Polish (pl) Rozpad ZSRR		5 104
10	Italian (it) Dissoluzione dell'Unione Sovietica		4 197

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dissolution of the Soviet Union		992
2	Russian (ru) Распад СССР		542
3	Chinese (zh) 苏联解体		263
4	French (fr) Dislocation de l'URSS		169
5	German (de) Zerfall der Sowjetunion		155
6	Japanese (ja) ソビエト連邦の崩壊		140
7	Spanish (es) Disolución de la Unión Soviética		115
8	Italian (it) Dissoluzione dell'Unione Sovietica		104
9	Portuguese (pt) Dissolução da União Soviética		92
10	Ukrainian (uk) Розпад СРСР		92

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) Dissolution of the Soviet Union		10
2	Russian (ru) Распад СССР		5
3	Dutch (nl) Uiteenvallen van de Sovjet-Unie		4
4	German (de) Zerfall der Sowjetunion		3
5	Finnish (fi) Neuvostoliiton hajoaminen		2
6	French (fr) Dislocation de l'URSS		2
7	Catalan (ca) Dissolució de la Unió Soviètica		1
8	Georgian (ka) სსრკ-ის დაშლა		1
9	Korean (ko) 소련의 붕괴		1
10	Polish (pl) Rozpad ZSRR		1

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

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