The book is a military-historical reference book on parts and institutions of the topographic service: Corps of Military Topographers of the Russian (Red) Army (1822-1923), Military Topographic Service of the Red (Soviet) Army (1923-1986), Topographic Service of the Armed Forces of the USSR and the Russian Federation (since 1986). The reference book sets out the history of the formation and the main stages of the activities of more than three hundred units and institutions that performed and continue to perform tasks of topographic and geodetic support of troops and headquarters in the XIX-XXI centuries