However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

The lead architects behind the Soviet space program's Vostok 1 mission were the rocket scientists Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov.

Vostok ( Russian for " east ") was named after Vostok, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition captained by Fabian von Bellingshausen ( the second ship Mirny captained by Mikhail Lazarev became the namesake for Mirny Station ).

Some sources connect the name Vostok 1 to Bellingshausen's ship.

He asked for 24 more from the garrison, before upping the request to 54 after hearing that the ship the party required at Okhotsk ( the Vostok ) would need significant manpower to repair.

On 7 July, Spangberg left with a detachment of 209 men and much of the cargo ; on 27 July apprentice shipbuilder Fyodor Kozlov led a small party to reach Okhotsk ahead of Spangberg, both to prepare food supplies and to start work repairing the Vostok and building a new ship ( the Fortuna ) needed to carry the party across the bay from Okhotsk to the Kamchatka peninsula.

* Vostok ( sloop-of-war ), a ship of Faddey Bellingshausen during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, when Antarctica was discovered

Bellingshausen named it after Lieutenant Ivan Zavodovski, who was captain of his ship, the Vostok.

The island was first sighted in 1820 by the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who named the island for his ship Vostok ( the name means " East " in Russian ).

The island was first sighted in 1820 by the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who named the island for his ship Vostok ( the name means " East " in Russian ).

As a commander of the ship Mirny and Fabian von Bellingshausen's deputy on his world cruise in 1819-1821 ( Bellingshausen commanded Vostok ), Lazarev took part in the discovery of Antarctica and numerous islands.

It was discovered in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, who named it for the third lieutenant on the expedition ship Vostok.

It was named by Bellingshausen after the third lieutenant on the expedition ship Vostok.

In 1720, he reached Okhotsk by land ( through Siberia ), then on a small ship Vostok he reached Kamchatka, then by land traveled to Nizhnekamchatsk ( and was the first to measure geographical coordinates of this place ).

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

The lake is named after Vostok Station, which in turn is named after the Vostok ( Восток ), the 900 ton sloop-of-war sailed by one of the discoverers of Antarctica, Russian explorer Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen.

The expedition was prepared by Mikhail Lazarev, who was made Bellingshausen's second-in-command and the captain of sloop Mirny, while Bellingshausen himself commanded sloop Vostok.

Bellingshausen became the captain of Vostok, and Lazarev captained Mirny.

The first recorded European to visit Mataiva was the Russian oceanic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, on July 30, 1820 on ships Vostok and Mirni.

Hao was the first atoll of the Tuamotus that Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen visited in 1820 on the ships Vostok and Mirni.

Russian oceanic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen visited Rakahanga on August 8, 1820, on ships Vostok and Mirni.

Around 60 % of Space Shuttle astronauts currently experience it on their first flight ; the first case is now suspected to be Gherman Titov, in August 1961 onboard Vostok 2, who reported dizziness and nausea.

The first sighting of Peter I Island was made on 21 January 1821 by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen's expedition, who commanded the ships Vostok and Mirnyy under the Russian flag.

Konstantin Feoktistov, who had been a design engineer for the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz programs, was selected for this flight, becoming the only Soviet outer space designer to make a spaceflight.

In order to create more space inside the descent module, the cosmonaut's ejection seat was removed, meaning that the Voskhod crews would return to Earth inside their spacecraft, unlike the Vostok cosmonauts who ejected and parachuted down separately.

The preparation work on the two ships, the 985-ton sloop-of-war Vostok (" East ") and the 530-ton support vessel Mirny (" Peaceful ") was carried out by Mikhail Lazarev, who had captained his own circumnavigation of the globe before.

The event is named for the first human to launch into space, Yuri Gagarin, who flew the Vostok 1 spaceship on April 12, 1961.

Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.

The large star is for Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space during Vostok 1, who was killed during training for Soyuz 3.

Variations in CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, temperature and dust from the Vostok, Antarctica | Vostok ice core over the past 450, 000 years

* 1983 – The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at.

* In pockets of liquid water within and under the ice caps, similar to Lake Vostok in Antarctica.

The coldest air temperature ever recorded on Earth is, at Vostok Station, Antarctica on 21 July 1983.

The coldest recorded average annual temperature was at Vostok Station, Antarctica.

Antarctica has the lowest temperature ever recorded: at Vostok Station.

Location of Lake Vostok in East Antarctica

The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition has argued that this manner of drilling is a profoundly misguided step which endangers Lake Vostok itself and also other subglacial lakes in Antarctica ( which some scientists are convinced are inter-linked with Lake Vostok ).

* Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake in Antarctica, located beneath Vostok Station

* Vostok Subglacial Highlands, an east extension of Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in Antarctica

* Vostok traverse, a 1962 Australian expedition across Antarctica

Crater Lake is often referred to as the seventh deepest lake in the world, but this former listing excludes the approximately depth of subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which resides under nearly of ice, and the recent report of a maximum depth for Lake O ' Higgins / San Martin, located on the border of Chile and Argentina.

Antarctica has the lowest naturally occurring temperature ever recorded on the ground on Earth: − 89. 2 ° C (− 128. 6 ° F ) at Vostok Station.

Levels of gases in the atmosphere in 420, 000 years of ice core data from Vostok Station | Vostok, Antarctica research station.

The lowest natural temperature ever recorded at the surface of the Earth was at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.

In ice from the Vostok core ( Antarctica ), the outer portion of the cores have up to 3 and 2 orders of magnitude higher bacterial density and dissolved organic carbon than the inner portion of the cores, respectively, as a result of drilling and handling.