Star Formation in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
  We report the measured H$\alpha$ fluxes and images of 66 nearby objects
observed with the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the
Russian Academy of Sciences. Three of these objects: IC2233, UGC4704, and
NGC3432 are late-type spiral galaxies, six objects are distant globular
clusters of the M31 galaxy, and the remaining ones are dwarf galaxies. We used
the measured H$\alpha$ fluxes to estimate the integrated and specific
star-formation rates and analyzed some of the main features of star formation
in dwarf galaxies and late-type spirals based on a sample of more than 500
Local volume galaxies.
