Vostok refers to

east East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

in Russian but may also refer to:

Spaceflight

Vostok programme The Vostok programme (russian: Восток, , ''Orient'' or ''East'') was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them safely. Competing with the United States Project Mercury, it succ ...

, Soviet human spaceflight project *

Vostok (spacecraft) Vostok (russian: Восток, translated as "East") was a class of single-pilot crewed spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The first human spaceflight was accomplished with Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. T ...

, a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union *

Vostok (rocket family) Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM and was designed for the human spaceflight programme. This family of rockets launched the first artificial satellite (Sputnik ...

, family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme * Vostok (crater), a crater explored by the Mars rover Opportunity *

Vostok 1 Vostok 1 (russian: link=no, Восток, ''East'' or ''Orient'' 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Apr ...

, the first human spaceflight

Places

Vostok Island Vostok Island is an uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific Ocean, part of the Line Islands belonging to Kiribati. Other names for the island include Anne Island, Bostock Island, Leavitts Island, Reaper Island, Wostock Island or Wostok I ...

, located in the south of Kiribati's Line Islands * Uschod (Minsk Metro) (Russian name ''Vostok''), a station of Minsk Metro, Minsk, Belarus * Vostok Rupes, a mountain chain on planet Mercury

Antarctica

Cape Vostok Cape Vostok () is a rocky headland which forms the west extremity of the Havre Mountains and the northwest extremity of Alexander Island in Antarctica. It was discovered by the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1821, led by Fabian Gottlieb von ...

, the west extremity of the Havre Mountains and the northwest extremity of Alexander Island *

Vostok Station Vostok Station (russian: ста́нция Восто́к, translit=stántsiya Vostók, , meaning "Station East") is a Russian research station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. Founded by the Soviet Union in 1957, the station ...

, Russian (originally Soviet) Antarctic research station *

Lake Vostok Lake Vostok (russian: озеро Восток, ''ozero Vostok'') is the largest of Antarctica's almost 400 known subglacial lakes. Lake Vostok is located at the southern Pole of Cold, beneath Russia's Vostok Station under the surface of the cen ...

, a subglacial lake located beneath Vostok Station * Vostok Subglacial Highlands, an east extension of Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains

Russia

* Vostok (inhabited locality), several inhabited localities *

Vostok Bay Vostok Bay (russian: залив Восток, ) is a small () bay in Sea of Japan to the west of Trudny Peninsula. It is a part of Peter the Great Gulf. The bay is a shallow but its fauna is rich. ''Vostok Bay Sea Wildlife Preserve'' was founde ...

, bay in south Primorsky Krai

Organizations

* Vostok watches, a brand of watch made in Chistopol, Tatarstan, Russia * Vostok motorcycles, a motorcycle company, participant in

1965 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season The 1965 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 17th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of thirteen Grand Prix races in six classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 50cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on ...

* Vostok Gas, a Bermuda-based oil and gas investment company *

Vostok Games Vostok Games is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv. The company was founded in March 2012 by former employees of GSC Game World, including Oleg Yavorsky, following GSC's shutdown. The company developed ''Fear the Wolves'', a battle ro ...

, a Ukrainian game developer * Special Battalion ''Vostok'', a Chechen military unit

Sport

Vostok Arsenyev Vostok (russian: Восток) is a bandy club in Arsenyev, Russia. The club was founded in 1953, has earlier been playing in the Russian Bandy Super League, the top-tier of Russian bandy, and now plays in Russian Bandy Supreme League Russian B ...

, a Russian bandy club *

FC Vostok FC Vostok ( kk, Восток Футбол Клубы, ''Vostok Fýtbol Klýby'') was a Kazakh football club from Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), and a founding member of the Kazakhstan Premier League in 1992. The club's best finish in the league was ...

, a Kazakhstani football club

Fictional entities

* Valentina Vostok, a fictional comic book character appearing in books published by DC Comics * Vostok, a member of the fictional superhero team Soviet Super-Soldiers, which appears in Marvel Comics * Vostok-X, a member of the fictional superhero team

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and the Others, which appears in DC Comics

Other uses

* ''Vostok'' (sloop-of-war), an 1818 ship of Faddey Bellingshausen during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition *

Vostok traverse The Vostok traverse was a 3000 kilometre four-month trip across Antarctica undertaken by ANARE the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in 1962. Using two bright red painted 1943 World War II M29 Weasel tracked vehicles and two 1950 D ...

, a 1962 Australian expedition across Antarctica * Russian military exercise, similar to Exercise Zapad **

Vostok 2010 Vostok 2010 (russian: Восток 2010, lit=East 2010) was a large-scale Russian military exercise held in Siberia and the country's Far East from June 29 to July 8, 2010.Radyuhin, Vladimir. "Large war game in Russia's far east." TheHindu.com. The ...

Vostok 2018 Vostok 2018 (russian: Восток 2018, lit=East 2018) was a large-scale Russian military exercise, held from 11 to 17 September 2018, throughout Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Eastern Military District. The exercise involved units ...