Vostok

Vostok (Russian: Восток) refers to east in Russian but may also refer to:

Spaceflight

• Vostok programme, Soviet human spaceflight project
• Vostok (spacecraft), a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union
• Vostok (rocket family), 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, the first human spaceflight

Places

• Vostok Island, 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, the west extremity of the Havre Mountains and the northwest extremity of Alexander Island
• Vostok Station, Russian (originally Soviet) Antarctic research station
• Lake Vostok, 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, 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
• Vostok Gas, a Bermuda-based oil and gas investment company
• Vostok Games, a Ukrainian game developer
• Special Battalion Vostok, a Chechen military unit

Sport

• Vostok Arsenyev, a Russian bandy club
• FC Vostok, 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 Aquaman and the Others, which appears in DC Comics

Other uses

• <i>Vostok</i> (novel), a 2015 The Loch/Meg crossover novel by Steve Alten
• Vostok (sloop-of-war), an 1818 ship of Faddey Bellingshausen during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition
• Vostok traverse, a 1962 Australian expedition across Antarctica
• Exercise Vostok, Russian military exercises, similar to Exercise Zapad

See also

• Vostok Battalion (disambiguation)

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