Vostok () refers to

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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 *

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, 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

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Other uses

* ''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