Mikhail Gorbachev

Quality:

Mikhail Gorbachev - leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. This person is the 275^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 352^nd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Mikhail Gorbachev” in Simple English Wikipedia has 56.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 10 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 3079^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2078^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 352^nd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 725^th most popular in all topics.

The 433^rd most popular in AI.

The 275^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 746^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1277^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2138^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Mikhail Gorbachev”, its content was written by 56 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2078^th place) and edited by 8427 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (433^rd place).

Mikhail Gorbachev is on the 352^nd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 275^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 258 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 35051 times in all languages (4659^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #42 in September 2022
• Global: #2 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #716 in May 2025
• Global: #16 in August 2022

There are 54 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) Mikhail Gorbachev		100
2	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Mikhail Gorbatchov		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov		100
5	Indonesian (id) Mikhail Gorbachev		95
6	German (de) Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow		94.0952
7	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		92.4565
8	Korean (ko) 미하일 고르바초프		91.4481
9	Belarusian (be) Міхаіл Сяргеевіч Гарбачоў		91.0464
10	Hungarian (hu) Mihail Szergejevics Gorbacsov		87.7398

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mikhail Gorbachev		36 550 540
2	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		19 974 489
3	German (de) Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow		7 607 801
4	Spanish (es) Mijaíl Gorbachov		6 318 462
5	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		4 852 255
6	Japanese (ja) ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ		4 473 735
7	Italian (it) Michail Gorbačëv		4 227 979
8	Polish (pl) Michaił Gorbaczow		2 909 668
9	Chinese (zh) 米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫		2 678 158
10	Portuguese (pt) Mikhail Gorbatchov		2 054 948

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) Mikhail Gorbachev		152 609
2	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		65 114
3	German (de) Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow		19 318
4	Spanish (es) Mijaíl Gorbachov		17 791
5	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		14 804
6	Chinese (zh) 米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫		13 723
7	Italian (it) Michail Gorbačëv		13 295
8	Japanese (ja) ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ		12 859
9	Persian (fa) میخائیل گورباچف		9 862
10	Polish (pl) Michaił Gorbaczow		8 733

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mikhail Gorbachev		1 955
2	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		792
3	German (de) Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow		604
4	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		491
5	Spanish (es) Mijaíl Gorbachov		338
6	Italian (it) Michail Gorbačëv		309
7	Japanese (ja) ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ		283
8	Chinese (zh) 米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫		280
9	Dutch (nl) Michail Gorbatsjov		243
10	Polish (pl) Michaił Gorbaczow		185

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) Mikhail Gorbachev		10
2	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		6
3	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		4
4	Spanish (es) Mijaíl Gorbachov		3
5	German (de) Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow		2
6	Japanese (ja) ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ		2
7	Ukrainian (uk) Горбачов Михайло Сергійович		2
8	Czech (cs) Michail Gorbačov		1
9	Hebrew (he) מיכאיל גורבצ'וב		1
10	Croatian (hr) Mihail Gorbačov		1

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

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