Vostok Syllabification: (Vos·tok)Pronunciation: /ˈväsˌtäk, ˌvəˈstôk/Definition of Vostok a series of six manned Soviet orbiting spacecraft, the first of which, launched in April 1961, carried the first man in space (Yuri Gagarin). Vostok in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Vostok in the British & World English dictionary