Symbiotic stars belong to an interesting group of interacting binaries that display a wide variety of phenomena, including prominent outbursts connected with mass transfer, stellar winds, and jets, eclipses, or intrinsic variability of the components. Several dozens of new symbiotic stars and candidates have been discovered in recent years.
However, there are many objects, which are still poorly studied. In this contribution, we present the rst results of the ongoing campaign focused on symbiotic candidates that have never been observed spectroscopically.
We discuss their photometric and spectroscopic properties in detail. Two objects, V2204 Oph and Hen 3-860 were conrmed as symbiotic binaries.