Abstract
We study a gravitating spherically symmetric nonrelativistic configuration consisting of a spinor fluid whose effective equation of state is derived from a consideration of a limiting system supported by a massive nonlinear spinor field. For such a configuration, we find a two-parametric family of static regular solutions describing compact objects whose masses and sizes are determined by the central density of the spinor fluid and the mass of the spinor field. Using the similarity method, we consider a gravitational collapse of an initially uniform system consisting of the spinor fluid. We estimate the general characteristics of the collapse and show that a resulting nonuniform distribution of the fluid occurs that may serve as a core for the creation of equilibrium starlike configurations.