Operation Barbarossa

Quality:

Operation Barbarossa - invasion of Soviet Union by Nazi German-led Axis powers in Europe. This event is the 81^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 180^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Operation Barbarossa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 33.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 2 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:

The 180^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3100^th most popular in all topics.

The 1370^th most popular in AI.

The 81^st most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2145^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 985^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Operation Barbarossa”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 5724 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1370^th place).

Operation Barbarossa is on the 180^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 81^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 80 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 38588 times in all languages (4225^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #478 in December 2014
• Global: #69 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2967 in January 2015
• Global: #936 in March 2022

There are 51 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) Operation Barbarossa		100
2	Persian (fa) عملیات بارباروسا		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Operação Barbarossa		100
4	Urdu (ur) آپریشن باربروسا		99.2308
5	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		99.1141
6	Galician (gl) Operación Barbarossa		97.3333
7	Hungarian (hu) Barbarossa hadművelet		95.9038
8	Arabic (ar) عملية بربروسا		92.1739
9	Turkish (tr) Barbarossa Harekâtı		91.3341
10	Bulgarian (bg) Операция „Барбароса“		90.8956

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Barbarossa		20 215 607
2	Russian (ru) Операция «Барбаросса»		5 752 145
3	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		3 763 711
4	Polish (pl) Atak Niemiec na ZSRR		2 815 716
5	German (de) Unternehmen Barbarossa		2 665 019
6	French (fr) Opération Barbarossa		2 464 452
7	Japanese (ja) バルバロッサ作戦		1 990 473
8	Italian (it) Operazione Barbarossa		1 950 536
9	Portuguese (pt) Operação Barbarossa		1 033 326
10	Chinese (zh) 巴巴羅薩行動		898 457

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) Operation Barbarossa		128 464
2	Russian (ru) Операция «Барбаросса»		29 684
3	German (de) Unternehmen Barbarossa		14 174
4	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		12 915
5	French (fr) Opération Barbarossa		12 611
6	Bulgarian (bg) Операция „Барбароса“		11 820
7	Japanese (ja) バルバロッサ作戦		10 561
8	Italian (it) Operazione Barbarossa		10 308
9	Polish (pl) Atak Niemiec na ZSRR		8 930
10	Chinese (zh) 巴巴羅薩行動		6 117

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Barbarossa		1 780
2	French (fr) Opération Barbarossa		357
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Барбаросса»		334
4	German (de) Unternehmen Barbarossa		271
5	Italian (it) Operazione Barbarossa		232
6	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		206
7	Polish (pl) Atak Niemiec na ZSRR		191
8	Hebrew (he) מבצע ברברוסה		179
9	Dutch (nl) Operatie Barbarossa		178
10	Swedish (sv) Operation Barbarossa		149

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) Operation Barbarossa		14
2	Polish (pl) Atak Niemiec na ZSRR		11
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Барбаросса»		6
4	Italian (it) Operazione Barbarossa		5
5	French (fr) Opération Barbarossa		3
6	German (de) Unternehmen Barbarossa		2
7	Spanish (es) Operación Barbarroja		2
8	Armenian (hy) Բարբարոսա (ռազմական գործողություն)		2
9	Dutch (nl) Operatie Barbarossa		2
10	Portuguese (pt) Operação Barbarossa		2

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

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