Siege of Leningrad

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Siege of Leningrad - 8 September 1941 – 27 January 1944 blockade of Leningrad by the Axis. This event is the 161^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 924^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Siege of Leningrad” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 924^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7314^th most popular in all topics.

The 4647^th most popular in AI.

The 161^st most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8875^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4011^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Siege of Leningrad” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (8875^th place) and written by 32 authors in all languages (4011^th place).

Since the creation of article “Siege of Leningrad”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3666 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4647^th place).

Siege of Leningrad is on the 924^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 161^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19087 times in all languages (8730^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #644 in September 2020
• Global: #784 in January 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14807 in June 2025
• Global: #970 in January 2019

There are 49 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	Dutch (nl) Beleg van Leningrad		98.9165
2	Hungarian (hu) Leningrád ostroma		97.615
3	Chinese (zh) 列寧格勒圍城戰		97.3602
4	Armenian (hy) Լենինգրադի բլոկադա		90.9573
5	Turkish (tr) Leningrad Kuşatması		90.4839
6	Thai (th) การล้อมเลนินกราด		89.9929
7	Persian (fa) محاصره لنینگراد		87.9481
8	English (en) Siege of Leningrad		87.6996
9	Spanish (es) Sitio de Leningrado		84.9779
10	German (de) Leningrader Blockade		84.2256

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Блокада Ленинграда		12 618 720
2	English (en) Siege of Leningrad		9 101 660
3	German (de) Leningrader Blockade		1 620 398
4	Spanish (es) Sitio de Leningrado		1 548 782
5	Japanese (ja) レニングラード包囲戦		1 146 525
6	French (fr) Siège de Léningrad		949 998
7	Polish (pl) Blokada Leningradu		836 810
8	Italian (it) Assedio di Leningrado		751 339
9	Chinese (zh) 列寧格勒圍城戰		542 968
10	Czech (cs) Obležení Leningradu		397 470

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) Siege of Leningrad		44 426
2	Russian (ru) Блокада Ленинграда		33 251
3	German (de) Leningrader Blockade		4 840
4	Japanese (ja) レニングラード包囲戦		4 413
5	Spanish (es) Sitio de Leningrado		3 796
6	Chinese (zh) 列寧格勒圍城戰		2 780
7	French (fr) Siège de Léningrad		2 360
8	Italian (it) Assedio di Leningrado		2 311
9	Polish (pl) Blokada Leningradu		1 964
10	Portuguese (pt) Cerco a Leninegrado		933

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Siege of Leningrad		813
2	Russian (ru) Блокада Ленинграда		564
3	German (de) Leningrader Blockade		298
4	French (fr) Siège de Léningrad		203
5	Italian (it) Assedio di Leningrado		133
6	Spanish (es) Sitio de Leningrado		126
7	Dutch (nl) Beleg van Leningrad		105
8	Hebrew (he) המצור על לנינגרד		96
9	Chinese (zh) 列寧格勒圍城戰		84
10	Polish (pl) Blokada Leningradu		77

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) Siege of Leningrad		12
2	Italian (it) Assedio di Leningrado		5
3	Russian (ru) Блокада Ленинграда		4
4	Arabic (ar) حصار لينينغراد		2
5	Croatian (hr) Opsada Lenjingrada		2
6	Bulgarian (bg) Блокада на Ленинград		1
7	Danish (da) Belejringen af Leningrad		1
8	Galician (gl) Cerco de Leningrado		1
9	Korean (ko) 레닌그라드 포위전		1
10	Simple English (simple) Siege of Leningrad		1

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

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