COMMISSIONS 27 AND 42 OF THE IAU 
            INFORMATION BULLETIN ON VARIABLE STARS 
                      Number 3743 
 
                                            Konkoly Observatory 
                                            Budapest 
                                            7 July 1992 
                                            HU ISSN 0374 - 0676 
 
 

            THE SVS NUMBERING SERIES DISCONTINUED 
 
 
 
Herewith we announce that the numbering series SVS ("Soviet Variable Stars") are not 
continued after December, 1991. The series starts with SVS I = NSV 06227 (J. Balanowsky, 
Astron. Nachr., 1918, 208, 34) and its last number is SVS 2887 (M.G. Smekhov, 
Astron. Tsirk., 1991, No.1550). Astronomers of many now independent states of the 
former Soviet Union contributed to this sequence. The greatest numbers of variables were 
discovered in Armenia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithunia, Russia, Tadjikistan. For historical 
reasons the group responsible for the General Catalogue of Variable Stars also attributed 
SVS numbers. 
 The majority of countries where variable stars are discovered do not have their national 
numbering sequences for preliminary designations of variable stars. On the contrary, 
many observatories have such numbering systems. We feel that the GCVS group has no 
right to introduce any new numbering for variables to be discovered in Russia or in the 
Commonwealth of Independent States; moreover, it is not clear if such a system would 
really be useful. 
 
                          E. V. KAZAROVETS 
                          N. N. SAMUS 
                          Institute for Astronomy 
                          of Russian Acad. of Sci. 
                          48, Pyatnitskaya Str., 
                          Moscow 109017, Russia