The Russian Wikipedia is the edition of the free online encyclopedia written in Russian. It was started in the first months of Wikipedia's expansion in 2001, soon after the English edition. It is edited by volunteers and run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and is one of the larger language editions of the project.
Before and after
- 11 May 2001Release of Portuguese Wikipedia
- 11 May 2001Release of Japanese Wikipedia
- 11 May 2001Release of Esperanto Wikipedia
- 11 May 2001Release of Spanish Wikipedia
- 17 May 2001Release of Russian Wikipedia
- 21 May 2001Release of Swedish Wikipedia
- 22 May 2001Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
- 30 May 2001Construction of Arena AufSchalke
- 1 June 2001Nepalese royal massacre
More in Science & technology
- 1945Invention of computer
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.