Vostok

American  

[vos-tok, vo-stok, vuh-stawk] / ˈvɒs tɒk, vɒˈstɒk, vʌˈstɔk /

noun

1. one of a series of Soviet spacecraft, carrying one cosmonaut, used to make the world's first manned spaceflights.

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Vostok British  

/ ˈvɒstɒk /

noun

1. any of six manned Soviet spacecraft made to orbit the earth. Vostok 1, launched in April 1961, carried Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space; Vostok 6 carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space

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Etymology

Origin of Vostok

First recorded in 1961, Vostok is from the Russian word Vostók literally, east

Example Sentences

His firm Baring Vostok financed tech companies such as Yandex, Russia’s answer to Google.

From The Wall Street Journal

A small capsule, Vostok 1, sat atop the R-7 rocket.

From Literature

Inside Vostok, Gagarin felt himself lifting up from his seat, held in only by the straps.

From Literature

Vostok was free-falling—not toward Earth, but around it.

From Literature

They turned on the radio, and there it was, a government announcement going out to the entire world: “The world’s first satellite ship, Vostok, with a human on board was launched into an orbit around the Earth from the Soviet Union. The pilot cosmonaut of the spaceship satellite Vostok is a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Major of Aviation Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.”

From Literature