Vostok

Vostok may 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

Other uses

Vostok (sloop-of-war), a 1818 ship of Faddey Bellingshausen during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition
Vostok traverse, a 1962 Australian expedition across Antarctica

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