Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev - leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022). This person is the 278^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 379^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Mikhail Gorbachev” in Simple English Wikipedia has 51.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 3245^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2224^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 379^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 712^th most popular in all topics.

The 431^st most popular in AI.

The 278^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4660^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1650^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2112^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 (2224^th place) and edited by 8571 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (431^st place).

Mikhail Gorbachev is on the 379^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 278^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 256 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 35942 times in all languages (4703^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #41 in September 2022
• Global: #2 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #760 in January 2015
• Global: #15 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, 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	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		92.8286
7	Korean (ko) 미하일 고르바초프		92.3772
8	Belarusian (be) Міхаіл Сяргеевіч Гарбачоў		91.2422
9	Greek (el) Μιχαήλ Γκορμπατσόφ		87.0506
10	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		86.6431

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mikhail Gorbachev		38 429 977
2	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		22 157 914
3	German (de) Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow		7 922 020
4	Spanish (es) Mijaíl Gorbachov		6 545 887
5	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		5 088 069
6	Japanese (ja) ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ		4 664 089
7	Italian (it) Michail Gorbačëv		4 410 381
8	Polish (pl) Michaił Gorbaczow		3 053 338
9	Chinese (zh) 米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫		2 809 956
10	Portuguese (pt) Mikhail Gorbatchov		2 132 949

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		120 111
2	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		51 190
3	German (de) Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow		19 501
4	Japanese (ja) ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ		14 498
5	Spanish (es) Mijaíl Gorbachov		13 634
6	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		12 646
7	Italian (it) Michail Gorbačëv		11 902
8	Persian (fa) میخائیل گورباچف		10 495
9	Chinese (zh) 米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫		9 702
10	Polish (pl) Michaił Gorbaczow		7 929

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		2 015
2	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		809
3	German (de) Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow		616
4	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		503
5	Spanish (es) Mijaíl Gorbachov		344
6	Italian (it) Michail Gorbačëv		317
7	Japanese (ja) ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ		291
8	Chinese (zh) 米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫		286
9	Dutch (nl) Michail Gorbatsjov		245
10	Polish (pl) Michaił Gorbaczow		188

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		6
2	Italian (it) Michail Gorbačëv		6
3	Russian (ru) Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич		5
4	Estonian (et) Mihhail Gorbatšov		3
5	Persian (fa) میخائیل گورباچف		3
6	French (fr) Mikhaïl Gorbatchev		3
7	Portuguese (pt) Mikhail Gorbatchov		3
8	Arabic (ar) ميخائيل غورباتشوف		2
9	Catalan (ca) Mikhaïl Gorbatxov		2
10	Croatian (hr) Mihail Gorbačov		2

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

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