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This article considers peculiarities of engineering students teaching to technical documentation translation. Technicaltranslation is viewed as means of the foreign language learning, as the method to improve reading skills and as the efficienttechnique for the information understanding control. The aim of the following paper is to develop the method of technicaltranslation teaching to the power engineering master’s students based on the authentic technical documents. Descriptions ofpatents were used as the main source of technical information as these documents reflect the latest trends and inventions inthe field of study. The research also includes analysis of errors occurring frequently in translation of scientific and technicaltexts which can lead to mistranslation. Results of the experimental teaching which included pre-experimental test, translationteaching itself and post-experimental test showed the efficiency of the proposed method and proved the necessity of thetechnical translation course to be integrated in the foreign language training program of engineering students.