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Wikipedia named the most popular articles in Russian in 2020. In the top ten there are three articles about Covid and one about the Spanish flu
The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has published a list of 100 articles in Russian that were most frequently visited in 2020.
The top ten of the list looks like this:
- COVID-19 Pandemic (38,945 views per day )
- Coronaviruses (20,833 views per day)
- YouTube (15,866 views per day)
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich (12,716 views per day)
- Russia (12,273 views per day)
- COVID-19 (10,211 views per day)
- List of deaths in 2020 (10,068 views per day)
- VKontakte (9652 views per day)
- Spanish Flu (9565 views per day)
- Moscow (9333 views per day)
Among the Wikipedia materials written in 2020, the most popular were several articles about the coronavirus pandemic, as well as articles about amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh .
Among materials written before 2020, the articles that saw the biggest increase in views were about coronaviruses , presidential elections in Belarus , Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin , and the pandemic .
In 2019, the top ten most popular Russian-language Wikipedia articles included , in particular, articles about Putin, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident , the Game of Thrones series, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (the article about him became the most popular for the year).