Soviet–Afghan War

Quality:

Soviet-Afghan War - 1979–1989 war between the Soviet Union and Afghan insurgents. This event is the 58^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 20^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Soviet–Afghan War” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 848^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 983^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 20^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2136^th most popular in all topics.

The 1351^st most popular in AI.

The 58^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 655^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1728^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2397^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2083^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Soviet–Afghan War” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1728^th place) and written by 44 authors in all languages (2083^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Soviet–Afghan War”, its content was written by 82 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (983^rd place) and edited by 5753 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1351^st place).

Soviet-Afghan War is on the 20^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 58^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 89 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 25649 times in all languages (6391^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #16 in April 2013
• Global: #164 in August 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #31 in March 2022
• Global: #39 in August 2021

There are 53 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	Italian (it) Guerra in Afghanistan (1979-1989)		100
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Afgansko-sovjetski rat		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Guerra do Afeganistão (1979–1989)		96.4874
4	Catalan (ca) Guerra afgano-soviètica		95
5	German (de) Krieg in Afghanistan (1979–1989)		92.2059
6	English (en) Soviet–Afghan War		90.8683
7	Malay (ms) Perang Soviet di Afghanistan		88.3772
8	Russian (ru) Афганская война (1979—1989)		85.2253
9	Persian (fa) جنگ شوروی در افغانستان		83.1529
10	Indonesian (id) Perang Soviet–Afganistan		81.8686

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Soviet–Afghan War		24 260 245
2	Russian (ru) Афганская война (1979—1989)		15 423 234
3	German (de) Krieg in Afghanistan (1979–1989)		2 924 192
4	Spanish (es) Guerra de Afganistán (1978-1989)		2 772 450
5	French (fr) Guerre d'Afghanistan (1979-1989)		2 032 920
6	Japanese (ja) アフガニスタン紛争 (1978年-1989年)		1 994 563
7	Polish (pl) Radziecka interwencja w Afganistanie		1 708 020
8	Italian (it) Guerra in Afghanistan (1979-1989)		1 322 723
9	Chinese (zh) 苏阿战争		1 243 252
10	Ukrainian (uk) Війна в Афганістані (1979—1989)		992 353

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) Soviet–Afghan War		119 790
2	Russian (ru) Афганская война (1979—1989)		59 887
3	German (de) Krieg in Afghanistan (1979–1989)		9 270
4	Japanese (ja) アフガニスタン紛争 (1978年-1989年)		9 039
5	French (fr) Guerre d'Afghanistan (1979-1989)		8 237
6	Spanish (es) Guerra de Afganistán (1978-1989)		8 163
7	Chinese (zh) 苏阿战争		6 211
8	Italian (it) Guerra in Afghanistan (1979-1989)		5 595
9	Arabic (ar) الحرب السوفيتية في أفغانستان		4 983
10	Persian (fa) جنگ شوروی در افغانستان		4 806

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Soviet–Afghan War		1 748
2	Russian (ru) Афганская война (1979—1989)		543
3	German (de) Krieg in Afghanistan (1979–1989)		413
4	French (fr) Guerre d'Afghanistan (1979-1989)		299
5	Italian (it) Guerra in Afghanistan (1979-1989)		200
6	Spanish (es) Guerra de Afganistán (1978-1989)		164
7	Japanese (ja) アフガニスタン紛争 (1978年-1989年)		146
8	Ukrainian (uk) Війна в Афганістані (1979—1989)		138
9	Polish (pl) Radziecka interwencja w Afganistanie		126
10	Chinese (zh) 苏阿战争		124

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) Soviet–Afghan War		14
2	Spanish (es) Guerra de Afganistán (1978-1989)		3
3	French (fr) Guerre d'Afghanistan (1979-1989)		3
4	Russian (ru) Афганская война (1979—1989)		3
5	Galician (gl) Guerra de Afganistán (1978-1992)		2
6	Polish (pl) Radziecka interwencja w Afganistanie		2
7	Simple English (simple) Soviet–Afghan War		2
8	Serbian (sr) Совјетски рат у Авганистану		2
9	Arabic (ar) الحرب السوفيتية في أفغانستان		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Əfqanıstan müharibəsi (1979–1989)		1

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

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