General Catalogue of Variable Stars

The General Catalogue of Variable Stars ( GCVS, russ: Общий каталог переменных звёзд ) is a star catalog of variable stars.

The GCVS was the first time in 1948 by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Sternberg Institute for Astronomy at the Moscow State University published with 10,820 designated variable stars in the galactic field. The second version was published in 1968 and the third version in the years 1985 to 1987. It contains 40,215 entries in three volumes (2010 ), with 11,844 new variable stars were grudge in Name List.

The fourth volume contains the references to the variable stars and the fifth volume 10,979 Variable in extragalactic systems such as the Magellanic Clouds, the Andromeda Galaxy, etc.