Sputnik is a search engine owned by Rostelecom, a Russian state-owned telecommunications company. It markets itself as an engine geared towards "local services". At the end of the week of the launch, it was responsible for 0.01% of the search engine traffic in Russia, compared with 62% for Yandex and 28% for Google. It went through the maximum in February 2016, with 11 thousands hits (compared with 121 million hits of Yandex). In January 2017, Sputnik was the 15th most popular search engine in Russia, with 1 / 32,000 times the hits of Yandex. More information...
According to PR-model, sputnik.ru is ranked 126,063rd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 13,649th in Russian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before fireshort.wordpress.com and after relooney.info in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.