Land surveying courses in Riga in 1911–1915, formed a part of the history of technical vocational education in the territory of Latvia before the First World War. They were organized by Pēteris Dzenis (1877–1946) at his private high school. Among the lecturers, there were the faculty and alumni of the Riga Polytechnical Institute. Course graduates found work mostly in provincial Russia, where the Stolypin’s agrarian reforms were carried out at that time. Later, they also took part in implementing the 1919 agrarian reforms in the Republic of Latvia.