Official Name: | Wostok |
Settlement Type: | Hamlet |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Alberta |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Wostok in Alberta |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Alberta |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Central Alberta |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 10 |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipal district |
Subdivision Name4: | Lamont County |
Population As Of: | 1991 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 15 |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | −7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −6 |
Coordinates: | 53.8419°N -112.4614°W |
Elevation M: | 639 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | Highway 45 and Highway 29 |
Wostok (Russian: Восток) is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Lamont County. It is located on Range Road 173, approximately 5km (03miles) south of Highway 45 and 8km (05miles) north of Highway 29. Lamont is approximately 23km (14miles) southwest of Wostok.
Wostok was founded in 1892 as a farming settlement of Slavic immigrants from the provinces of Galicia and Bukovina of Austria-Hungary.[2]
Wostok recorded a population of 15 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada.[1]