Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Great Soviet Encyclopedia - 1926–1990 encyclopedia published in the Soviet Union. This book is the 799^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 912^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Great Soviet Encyclopedia” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Great Soviet Encyclopedia”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1203 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Great Soviet Encyclopedia is on the 912^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 799^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 73813 times in all languages (2326^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2783 in August 2023
• Global: #5531 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #23085 in August 2023
• Global: #34541 in December 2014

There are 42 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	Croatian (hr) Velika sovjetska enciklopedija		90.9326
2	Russian (ru) Большая советская энциклопедия		55.4743
3	English (en) Great Soviet Encyclopedia		53.4342
4	Urdu (ur) عظیم سوویت انسائیکلوپیڈیا		35.9222
5	Finnish (fi) Bolšaja sovetskaja entsiklopedija		34.9162
6	Chinese (zh) 苏联大百科全书		32.3568
7	French (fr) Grande Encyclopédie soviétique		30.9904
8	Simple English (simple) Great Soviet Encyclopedia		29.8058
9	German (de) Große Sowjetische Enzyklopädie		29.6344
10	Spanish (es) Gran Enciclopedia Soviética		24.9129

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Great Soviet Encyclopedia" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Большая советская энциклопедия		5 395 650
2	English (en) Great Soviet Encyclopedia		636 274
3	German (de) Große Sowjetische Enzyklopädie		103 570
4	Ukrainian (uk) Велика радянська енциклопедія		100 605
5	Czech (cs) Velká sovětská encyklopedie		58 681
6	Spanish (es) Gran Enciclopedia Soviética		53 934
7	Polish (pl) Wielka Encyklopedia Radziecka		46 008
8	Italian (it) Grande enciclopedia sovietica		36 415
9	Chinese (zh) 苏联大百科全书		30 798
10	Japanese (ja) ソビエト大百科事典		30 365

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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 "Great Soviet Encyclopedia" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Большая советская энциклопедия		7 700
2	English (en) Great Soviet Encyclopedia		1 694
3	German (de) Große Sowjetische Enzyklopädie		183
4	Chinese (zh) 苏联大百科全书		131
5	Polish (pl) Wielka Encyklopedia Radziecka		117
6	Spanish (es) Gran Enciclopedia Soviética		113
7	Italian (it) Grande enciclopedia sovietica		92
8	Czech (cs) Velká sovětská encyklopedie		86
9	Ukrainian (uk) Велика радянська енциклопедія		79
10	Portuguese (pt) Grande Enciclopédia Soviética		74

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Большая советская энциклопедия		255
2	English (en) Great Soviet Encyclopedia		217
3	German (de) Große Sowjetische Enzyklopädie		88
4	Italian (it) Grande enciclopedia sovietica		59
5	French (fr) Grande Encyclopédie soviétique		55
6	Spanish (es) Gran Enciclopedia Soviética		40
7	Hebrew (he) האנציקלופדיה הסובייטית הגדולה		36
8	Dutch (nl) Grote Sovjetencyclopedie		33
9	Ukrainian (uk) Велика радянська енциклопедія		32
10	Czech (cs) Velká sovětská encyklopedie		30

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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 "Great Soviet Encyclopedia" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Soviet Encyclopedia		2
2	Indonesian (id) Ensiklopedia Besar Soviet		1
3	Arabic (ar) الموسوعة السوفيتية العظمى		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Böyük Sovet Ensiklopediyası		0
5	Belarusian (be) Вялікая савецкая энцыклапедыя		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Голяма съветска енциклопедия		0
7	Catalan (ca) Gran enciclopèdia soviètica		0
8	Czech (cs) Velká sovětská encyklopedie		0
9	Danish (da) Den store sovjetiske encyklopædi		0
10	German (de) Große Sowjetische Enzyklopädie		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 "Great Soviet Encyclopedia" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) Большая советская энциклопедия		33 618
2	Portuguese (pt) Grande Enciclopédia Soviética		17 192
3	Ukrainian (uk) Велика радянська енциклопедія		3 139
4	Belarusian (be) Вялікая савецкая энцыклапедыя		3 087
5	German (de) Große Sowjetische Enzyklopädie		2 980
6	Czech (cs) Velká sovětská encyklopedie		2 277
7	English (en) Great Soviet Encyclopedia		2 017
8	Italian (it) Grande enciclopedia sovietica		2 010
9	Persian (fa) دانشنامه بزرگ شوروی		1 042
10	Armenian (hy) Սովետական մեծ հանրագիտարան		859

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الموسوعة السوفيتية العظمى
az	Azerbaijani Böyük Sovet Ensiklopediyası
be	Belarusian Вялікая савецкая энцыклапедыя
bg	Bulgarian Голяма съветска енциклопедия
ca	Catalan Gran enciclopèdia soviètica
cs	Czech Velká sovětská encyklopedie
da	Danish Den store sovjetiske encyklopædi
de	German Große Sowjetische Enzyklopädie
el	Greek Μεγάλη Σοβιετική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια
en	English Great Soviet Encyclopedia
eo	Esperanto Granda Sovetia Enciklopedio
es	Spanish Gran Enciclopedia Soviética
et	Estonian Suur nõukogude entsüklopeedia
fa	Persian دانشنامه بزرگ شوروی
fi	Finnish Bolšaja sovetskaja entsiklopedija
fr	French Grande Encyclopédie soviétique
he	Hebrew האנציקלופדיה הסובייטית הגדולה
hi	Hindi महान सोवियत ज्ञानकोश
hr	Croatian Velika sovjetska enciklopedija
hu	Hungarian Nagy szovjet enciklopédia
hy	Armenian Սովետական մեծ հանրագիտարան
id	Indonesian Ensiklopedia Besar Soviet
it	Italian Grande enciclopedia sovietica
ja	Japanese ソビエト大百科事典
ka	Georgian დიდი საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია
kk	Kazakh Үлкен кеңес энциклопедиясы
ko	Korean 소비에트 대백과사전
lt	Lithuanian Didžioji tarybinė enciklopedija
nl	Dutch Grote Sovjetencyclopedie
no	Norwegian Store sovjetiske encyklopedi
pl	Polish Wielka Encyklopedia Radziecka
pt	Portuguese Grande Enciclopédia Soviética
ro	Romanian Marea Enciclopedie Sovietică
ru	Russian Большая советская энциклопедия
simple	Simple English Great Soviet Encyclopedia
sv	Swedish Stora sovjetencyklopedin
tr	Turkish Büyük Sovyet Ansiklopedisi
uk	Ukrainian Велика радянська енциклопедія
ur	Urdu عظیم سوویت انسائیکلوپیڈیا
uz	Uzbek Katta sovet ensiklopediyasi
vi	Vietnamese Đại bách khoa toàn thư Xô Viết
zh	Chinese 苏联大百科全书

Best Rank

Simple English: #23085 08.2023

Global: #34541 12.2014

Best Rank

Simple English: #2783 08.2023

Global: #5531 01.2013

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