It is anticipated that future space-born missions, such as Gaia, will be ableto determine in optical domain positions of more than 100,000 bright quasarswith sub-mas accuracies that are comparable to very long baselineinterferometry (VLBI) accuracies. Comparisons of coordinate systems fromspace-born missions and from VLBI will be very important, first forinvestigation of possible systematic errors, second for investigation ofpossible shift between centroids of radio and optical emissions in activegalaxy nuclea. In order to make such a comparison more robust, a program ofdensification of the grid of radio sources detectable with both VLBI and Gaiawas launched in 2006. In the second observing campaign a set of 290 objectsfrom the list of 398 compact extragalactic radio sources with declinationsgreater -10 deg was observed with the VLBA+EVN in 2010-2011 with the primarygoal of producing their images with milliarcsecond resolution. These sourcesare brighter than 18 magnitude at V band. In this paper coordinates of observedsources have been derived with milliarcsecond accuracies from analysis of theseVLBI observations following the method of absolute astrometry and their imageswere produced. The catalogue of positions of 295 target sources and estimatesof their correlated flux densities at 2.2 and 8.4 GHz is presented. Theaccuracies of source coordinates are in a range of 2 to 200 mas, with themedian 3.2 mas.
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