High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: ??????? ?????????) is the Russian language edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on May 20, 2001. Its 10,000th article was created on December 30, 2004, and it is currently one of the largest and fastest growing Wikipedias. On May 19, 2008, it became the 10th largest Wikipedia by size and on June 16, 2009, it passed the 400,000 articles threshold. As of August 2009, yearly traffic was growing at a rate of 117%, nearly twice that of the second fastest growing, Korean Wikipedia. On November 29, 2006, it was awarded the Russian state "Runet Prize" (?????? ??????) in the science and education category.