Voskhod

[vos-kod, vos-kod, vuh-skhawd]

noun

1. one of a series of Soviet spacecraft, carrying two or three cosmonauts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Voskhod¹

First recorded in 1964, Voskhod is from the Russian word Voskhód literally, rising (of the sun, a planetary body, etc.)

Example Sentences

He had ridden his Soviet-era Voskhod motorcycle to the Kherson side of the bridge, where he frequently fishes.

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The first spacewalk, by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in 1965, almost ended in disaster when the expansion of his suit in the vacuum of space almost prevented him from reentering the Voskhod 2 capsule.

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In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.

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Voskhod is what Muscovites of Gagarin’s generation might have imagined a ‘restaurant of the future’ might look like.

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Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space, also created the first artwork in space — he had brought coloured pencils on his 1965 Voskhod mission and captured a sketch of the brightly coloured sliver of Earth’s atmosphere.

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