Moscow theater hostage crisis

Moscow theater hostage crisis - seizure of a crowded Dubrovka Theater in Russia that happened in 2002. Article “Moscow theater hostage crisis” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Moscow theater hostage crisis”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1785 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1840 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #15114 in January 2023
• Global: #276 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #26837 in March 2024
• Global: #86 in March 2024

There are 40 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) Moscow theater hostage crisis		82.8798
2	Ukrainian (uk) Трагедія Норд-Осту		82.2222
3	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes del teatro Dubrovka de Moscú		80.6035
4	Russian (ru) Теракт на Дубровке		77.164
5	German (de) Geiselnahme im Moskauer Dubrowka-Theater		59.6245
6	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos reféns do teatro de Dubrovka		44.3648
7	Estonian (et) Dubrovka teatri pantvangikriis		43.7995
8	Thai (th) วิกฤตการณ์ตัวประกันโรงละครมอสโก		37.386
9	Bulgarian (bg) Терористичен акт на Дубровка		37.2079
10	Slovak (sk) Útok na moskovské divadlo na Dubrovke		35.3136

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Moscow theater hostage crisis" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Теракт на Дубровке		10 645 892
2	English (en) Moscow theater hostage crisis		5 797 447
3	German (de) Geiselnahme im Moskauer Dubrowka-Theater		782 389
4	Japanese (ja) モスクワ劇場占拠事件		677 174
5	French (fr) Prise d'otages du théâtre de Moscou		586 388
6	Polish (pl) Atak na moskiewski teatr na Dubrowce		571 616
7	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes del teatro Dubrovka de Moscú		559 203
8	Italian (it) Crisi del teatro Dubrovka		544 763
9	Chinese (zh) 莫斯科歌劇院脅持事件		333 532
10	Ukrainian (uk) Трагедія Норд-Осту		216 406

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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 "Moscow theater hostage crisis" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Теракт на Дубровке		32 395
2	English (en) Moscow theater hostage crisis		21 568
3	Japanese (ja) モスクワ劇場占拠事件		2 656
4	French (fr) Prise d'otages du théâtre de Moscou		2 523
5	German (de) Geiselnahme im Moskauer Dubrowka-Theater		1 952
6	Italian (it) Crisi del teatro Dubrovka		1 507
7	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes del teatro Dubrovka de Moscú		1 379
8	Polish (pl) Atak na moskiewski teatr na Dubrowce		1 321
9	Ukrainian (uk) Трагедія Норд-Осту		1 050
10	Chinese (zh) 莫斯科歌劇院脅持事件		977

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

Language versions of the article "Moscow theater hostage crisis" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Moscow theater hostage crisis		511
2	Russian (ru) Теракт на Дубровке		335
3	German (de) Geiselnahme im Moskauer Dubrowka-Theater		129
4	Italian (it) Crisi del teatro Dubrovka		97
5	French (fr) Prise d'otages du théâtre de Moscou		86
6	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes del teatro Dubrovka de Moscú		52
7	Polish (pl) Atak na moskiewski teatr na Dubrowce		52
8	Vietnamese (vi) Vụ khủng bố nhà hát Dubrovka Moskva		50
9	Dutch (nl) Gijzeling in het Doebrovkatheater in Moskou in oktober 2002		41
10	Danish (da) Terrorangrebet mod Dubrovka-teateret i Moskva		39

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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 "Moscow theater hostage crisis" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) گروگان‌گیری در تئاتر مسکو		2
2	Greek (el) Επίθεση Τσετσένων στο θέατρο της Μόσχας (2002)		1
3	Estonian (et) Dubrovka teatri pantvangikriis		1
4	Basque (eu) Moskuko antzokiko bahitu-krisia		1
5	Russian (ru) Теракт на Дубровке		1
6	Arabic (ar) أزمة رهائن مسرح موسكو		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Dubrovka faciəsi		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Терористичен акт на Дубровка		0
9	Catalan (ca) Presa d'ostatges del teatre Dubrovka		0
10	Czech (cs) Útok v moskevském divadle na Dubrovce		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 "Moscow theater hostage crisis" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Russian (ru) Теракт на Дубровке		349
2	English (en) Moscow theater hostage crisis		325
3	Arabic (ar) أزمة رهائن مسرح موسكو		169
4	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos reféns do teatro de Dubrovka		116
5	Chinese (zh) 莫斯科歌劇院脅持事件		92
6	Danish (da) Terrorangrebet mod Dubrovka-teateret i Moskva		70
7	Japanese (ja) モスクワ劇場占拠事件		60
8	Polish (pl) Atak na moskiewski teatr na Dubrowce		60
9	Italian (it) Crisi del teatro Dubrovka		59
10	French (fr) Prise d'otages du théâtre de Moscou		58

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أزمة رهائن مسرح موسكو
az	Azerbaijani Dubrovka faciəsi
bg	Bulgarian Терористичен акт на Дубровка
ca	Catalan Presa d'ostatges del teatre Dubrovka
cs	Czech Útok v moskevském divadle na Dubrovce
da	Danish Terrorangrebet mod Dubrovka-teateret i Moskva
de	German Geiselnahme im Moskauer Dubrowka-Theater
el	Greek Επίθεση Τσετσένων στο θέατρο της Μόσχας (2002)
en	English Moscow theater hostage crisis
eo	Esperanto Terorisma atako kontraŭ la teatro ĉe Dubrovka
es	Spanish Crisis de rehenes del teatro Dubrovka de Moscú
et	Estonian Dubrovka teatri pantvangikriis
eu	Basque Moskuko antzokiko bahitu-krisia
fa	Persian گروگان‌گیری در تئاتر مسکو
fi	Finnish Moskovan teatterikaappaus
fr	French Prise d'otages du théâtre de Moscou
he	Hebrew משבר בני הערובה בתיאטרון במוסקבה
hy	Armenian Նորդ Օստի ահաբեկչություն
id	Indonesian Krisis penyanderaan teater Moskow
it	Italian Crisi del teatro Dubrovka
ja	Japanese モスクワ劇場占拠事件
ka	Georgian დუბროვკის ტერორისტული აქტი
ko	Korean 모스크바 극장 인질극
nl	Dutch Gijzeling in het Doebrovkatheater in Moskou in oktober 2002
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Terrorangrepet mot Dubrovka-teateret i Moskva
no	Norwegian Terrorangrepet mot Dubrovka-teateret i Moskva
pl	Polish Atak na moskiewski teatr na Dubrowce
pt	Portuguese Crise dos reféns do teatro de Dubrovka
ru	Russian Теракт на Дубровке
sh	Serbo-Croatian Talačka kriza u moskovskom teatru
simple	Simple English Moscow theater hostage crisis
sk	Slovak Útok na moskovské divadlo na Dubrovke
sl	Slovenian Teroristični napad v gledališču Dubrovka
sr	Serbian Талачка криза у московском театру
sv	Swedish Gisslandramat på Dubrovkateatern
th	Thai วิกฤตการณ์ตัวประกันโรงละครมอสโก
tr	Turkish Moskova tiyatro rehine krizi
uk	Ukrainian Трагедія Норд-Осту
vi	Vietnamese Vụ khủng bố nhà hát Dubrovka Moskva
zh	Chinese 莫斯科歌劇院脅持事件

Best Rank

Simple English: #26837 03.2024

Global: #86 03.2024

Best Rank

Simple English: #15114 01.2023

Global: #276 10.2002

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