工程测量是测量学的一个分支，它是由於大规模的社会主义经济建设的需要，特别是在苏联的经济建设中积累了几十年的工作经验汇集而成的一门新兴的科学。它虽然还年青，但在整个国民经济建设中却起着巨大的作用。例如我们要建设一座现代化的城市、一个集体农庄、一座水力发电站、一个工厂或者开发一个矿山、一些荒地，都必须先进行工程测量。 Engineering surveying is a branch of surveying, which is due to the need for large-scale socialist economic construction, especially a new science that has accumulated decades of work experience in the Soviet Union’s economic construction. Although it is still young, it plays an enormous role in the entire national economy. For example, we must build a modern city, a collective farm, a hydroelectric power station, a factory or develop a mine, some wasteland, must first carry out engineering measurements.