Vostok

Vostok (Russian: Восток, translated as "East") may refer to:

Spaceflight

• The Soviet Vostok programme of human spaceflight
• The spacecraft used in that programme and also the basis of a reconnaissance satellite
• The rocket, used to launch the Vostok spacecraft

Also

• The corvette Vostok with which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen explored Antarctica in 1820
• A Soviet Antarctic base
• Lake_Vostok beneath Vostok base, which also seems destined to play a part in the space exploration, given theories that it provides conditions similiar to those on icy Jovian moons, primarily on Europa.
• Dalny Vostok -- the Russian language phrase which names the Russian Far East.
• Vostok Island in the Pacific Ocean