First Chechen War

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First Chechen War - war fought from 1994 to 1996 in Chechnya. This event is the 182^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 794^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “First Chechen War” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 794^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8490^th most popular in all topics.

The 9509^th most popular in AI.

The 182^nd most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “First Chechen War”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2588 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9509^th place).

First Chechen War is on the 794^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 182^nd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9561 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3001 in April 2022
• Global: #972 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8950 in December 2024
• Global: #130 in March 2022

There are 44 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	Russian (ru) Первая чеченская война		95.1484
2	Esperanto (eo) Unua Ĉeĉenia milito		93.75
3	Ukrainian (uk) Перша російсько-чеченська війна		81.2375
4	Estonian (et) Esimene Tšetšeenia sõda		70.9072
5	English (en) First Chechen War		69.8798
6	Belarusian (be) Першая чачэнская вайна		66.7769
7	Croatian (hr) Prvi čečenski rat		59.403
8	Urdu (ur) پہلی چیچن جنگ		59.0697
9	French (fr) Première guerre de Tchétchénie		56.5517
10	Hebrew (he) מלחמת צ'צ'ניה הראשונה		56.2051

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Первая чеченская война		14 076 394
2	English (en) First Chechen War		6 401 950
3	German (de) Erster Tschetschenienkrieg		1 152 800
4	Spanish (es) Primera guerra chechena		883 601
5	Ukrainian (uk) Перша російсько-чеченська війна		826 815
6	Polish (pl) I wojna czeczeńska		794 263
7	French (fr) Première guerre de Tchétchénie		763 822
8	Japanese (ja) 第一次チェチェン紛争		751 278
9	Chinese (zh) 第一次車臣戰爭		614 548
10	Arabic (ar) الحرب الشيشانية الأولى		520 770

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Первая чеченская война		50 328
2	English (en) First Chechen War		33 766
3	Ukrainian (uk) Перша російсько-чеченська війна		3 078
4	German (de) Erster Tschetschenienkrieg		2 591
5	Arabic (ar) الحرب الشيشانية الأولى		2 504
6	Spanish (es) Primera guerra chechena		2 487
7	French (fr) Première guerre de Tchétchénie		2 438
8	Chinese (zh) 第一次車臣戰爭		2 353
9	Turkish (tr) Birinci Çeçen Savaşı		2 159
10	Polish (pl) I wojna czeczeńska		1 996

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) First Chechen War		576
2	Russian (ru) Первая чеченская война		423
3	German (de) Erster Tschetschenienkrieg		190
4	French (fr) Première guerre de Tchétchénie		153
5	Ukrainian (uk) Перша російсько-чеченська війна		111
6	Italian (it) Prima guerra cecena		106
7	Spanish (es) Primera guerra chechena		75
8	Chinese (zh) 第一次車臣戰爭		71
9	Hebrew (he) מלחמת צ'צ'ניה הראשונה		68
10	Japanese (ja) 第一次チェチェン紛争		66

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) First Chechen War		10
2	Persian (fa) جنگ نخست چچن		2
3	Russian (ru) Первая чеченская война		2
4	Italian (it) Prima guerra cecena		1
5	Norwegian (no) Den første Tsjetsjenia-krigen		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Primeira Guerra da Chechênia		1
7	Arabic (ar) الحرب الشيشانية الأولى		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Birinci Çeçenistan müharibəsi		0
9	Belarusian (be) Першая чачэнская вайна		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Първа чеченска война		0

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

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