Editing Vostok (sloop-of-war) (section)

== Named in honor ==
[[File:RR5318-0006R Первая русская антарктическая экспедиция.gif|thumb|180px|left|''Vostok'' (left) and ''[[Mirny (sloop-of-war)|Mirny]]'' (right) during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition on a coin of the [[Bank of Russia]]]]
* [[Vostok Island]] in the [[Line Islands]] group ([[Polynesia]]), discovered by Bellingshausen during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1820.<ref name=tattoo>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tattooarchive.com/tattoo_history/vostok.html |title=Tattoo Archive – Vostok |access-date=2012-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122162838/http://www.tattooarchive.com/tattoo_history/vostok.html |archive-date=2012-01-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Cape Vostok]], the western extremity of the [[Havre Mountains]] and the northwestern extremity of [[Alexander Island]] in Antarctic, discovered by Bellingshausen in 1821.<ref>[http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=129:3:1348295785774950::NO::P3_ANTAR_ID,P3_TITLE:16143%2CVostok%2C%20Cape Vostok, Cape] [[Geographic Names Information System]]{{deadlink|date=September 2022}}</ref>
* [[List of geological features on Mercury|Vostok Rupes]], a mountain chain on planet [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]].<ref>[http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=MERCURY&featureType=Rupes%2C%20rup%C4%93s Batson R.M., Russell J.F. (1994), Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2129] planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov{{deadlink|date=September 2022}}</ref>
* [[Vostok Station]], a Russian Antarctic research station located on the [[Pole of Cold]] amid the [[East Antarctic Ice Sheet]],<ref name=vokrugsveta/> established on 16 December 1957 (during the [[International Geophysical Year]]) by the [[2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition]].<ref name=igsoc>[http://www.igsoc.org/annals/47/a47a012.pdf Deep drilling at Vostok station, Antarctica: history and recent events]{{deadlink|date=September 2022}}</ref>
* [[Vostok Subglacial Highlands]], an east extension of [[Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains]] in Antarctica.<ref>[http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/antname.php?uni=16144&fid=antgeo_125 Vostok Subglacial Highlands: Antarctica] ''geographic.org'', accessed 23 September 2022</ref>
* [[Vostok Lake]], the largest [[subglacial lake]] in the world is named after [[Vostok Station]].<ref name=vokrugsveta>[http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/telegraph/history/505/ Полвека в глубине Антарктиды] (''tr. "Half a century in the depths of Antarctica"'') [[Vokrug Sveta]] {{in lang|ru}}, accessed 23 September 2022</ref> The existence of a subglacial lake in the Vostok region was first suggested by Russian geographer [[Andrey Kapitsa]] based on seismic soundings made during the [[Soviet Antarctic Expedition]]s.<ref name=lenta-kapitsa>[http://lenta.ru/news/2011/08/03/kapitsa/ Скончался первооткрыватель озера Восток в Антарктиде] (''tr. "Discoverer of Lake Vostok in Antarctica dies"'') [[Lenta.ru]] {{in lang|ru}}, accessed 23 September 2022</ref>
* [[Vostok 1]], the Soviet [[spacecraft]] which carried the first man into space, [[Yuri Gagarin]], on 12 April 1961.<ref name=tattoo/>