Dale wrote:

Not to mention Vostok, also with ejection seats, and Voshkod, presumably
equipped with prayer books for the crew

Voshkod was what I had in mind, since it had no escape system at all.
Probably not even a prayer book, given the ideology of it's operators.
Maybe a bottle of vodka ?

On the subject of Vostok, anyone know if the ejection seat even
intended to be usable as a launch escape system, or was it purely for
landing ?