Vostok: Meaning and Definition of

Vos•tok

Pronunciation: (vos'tok, vo-stok' Russ. vu-stôk'), [key]
— n.
  1. one of a series of Soviet spacecraft, carrying one cosmonaut, used to make the world's first manned spaceflights.
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