east
Russian word meaning East. Also the general direction Yuri Gagarin would travel in, to orbit the Earth in his Vostok-1 space craft.
Russian.
Kulaks
Уолтер (Uolter).
Czar, also written in Latin characters as Tsar, is a Russian title that translates as "Emperor." Ultimately, it derives from the Latin name turned title, Caesar, which came to mean Emperor during the time of the Roman Empire.
Vostok is the Russian word for "EAST." Likely because spacecraft tend to be launched towards the East, to take advantage of the Earth's rotation in an eastward direction.
Russian word meaning East. Also the general direction Yuri Gagarin would travel in, to orbit the Earth in his Vostok-1 space craft.
Vostok 1
Gherman Stepanovich Titov aboard Vostok 2
Vostok
Antarctica's Vostok station is the record holder for the coldest temperature on earth. Vostok is a Russian scientific station. Australia claims a pie-shaped slice of Antarctica, which is an invalid claim based on the Antarctic Treaty. Vostok Station -- a Russian research station, is located in this slice of Antarctica.
("If you mean the first one launched, It was named "Sputnik 1".) Here we go again... NO It Wasn't! The first Spacecraft with a human to go into space was the Russian Satellite called 'Vostok', or 'Vostok 3KA'. 'Sputink', is the Russian word for 'Satellite', it was NOT the Name of the spacecraft. imagine if every Russian called 'Apollo 18' ... 'Satilite' with a heavy russian accent... DRrr Not. Now to address the question, name of a russian spaceship? there are many...
Some of the Russian space crafts are Soyuz, Progress, and Vostok. Soyuz is used for crewed missions to the International Space Station, Progress is an unmanned cargo spacecraft, and Vostok was the spacecraft that carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
The "Vostok" spaceship carrying Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was launched on April 12, 1961.
Russian named Major Yuri Gargarin, Vostok Rocket, 1961.
"Vostok station (Russian) NEW RECORD SET IN 1997 Mofeez Kazi
According to its Web page on Wikipedia: "the surface of the lake is minus 500m or minus 1,600 feet [below the surface of the ice at Lake Vostok (Russian) station]."