The Catalogue of Spectroscopic Data of the Crimean Observatory

The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO) has a long history of spectral observations, going back for 60 years. Most of these observations have been obtained with a photographic emulsion as detector. Only during the last ten years a CCD camera has been used. The amount of scientific information is very large: more than 10 000 photographic spectrograms for several hundreds of objects. Among the spectral data one can find unique observations of interesting objects such as novae, supernovae, cataclysmic and flare stars, symbiotic stars, long-term binary systems and chemically peculiar stars. The first version of the Catalogue of Archived Spectroscopic Data of CrAO is available at the observatory. The information contained in this catalog is considered to be essential for any catalog of archived spectroscopic data. The IAU standard form for data (FITS) is recommended and standard keyword names are suggested which are identical to the FITS standard keywords. The Catalogue is prepared on the basis of the Archive Spectroscopic Data which contain the original spectrograms obtained on three telescopes: 40('') , 50('') and 2.6 m. The structure of the database of spectroscopic observations is simple and made in the dBaseIII+ standard. The database consists of 21 fields. The basis of information concerning observations, details of telescopes and equipment is the ``book of observations".