We study a partial case of canonical almost geodesic mappings of the first type of spaces with affine connection that preserve Weyl projective curvature tensor and certain other tensors. Main equations under consideration are reduced to a closed Cauchy system type in covariant derivatives. Therefore a general solution to these equations depends on a finite number of constants. We submit an example of above mappings between flat spaces. We establish that projective Euclidean and equiaffine spaces form closed classes of spaces with respect to these mappings.

In the paper, we consider canonical almost geodesic mappings of type ${\pi }_2\left(e\right)$ . We have found the conditions that must be satisfied for the mappings to preserve the Riemann tensor. Furthermore, we consider canonical almost geodesic mappings of type ${\pi }_2\left(e\right)$ of spaces with affine connections onto symmetric spaces. The main equations for the mappings are obtained as a closed mixed system of Cauchy-type Partial Differential Equations. We have found the maximum number of essential parameters which the solution of the system depends on.

In the paper, we consider geodesic mappings of spaces with an affine connections onto generalized symmetric and Ricci-symmetric spaces. In particular, we studied in detail geodesic mappings of spaces with an affine connections onto 2-, 3-, and m- (Ricci-) symmetric spaces. These spaces play an important role in the General Theory of Relativity. The main results we obtained were generalized to a case of geodesic mappings of spaces with an affine connection onto (Ricci-) symmetric spaces. The main equations of the mappings were obtained as closed mixed systems of PDEs of the Cauchy type in covariant form. For the systems, we have found the maximum number of essential parameters which the solutions depend on. Any m- (Ricci-) symmetric spaces ($m\ge 1$) are geodesically mapped onto many spaces with an affine connection. We can call these spaces projectivelly m- (Ricci-) symmetric spaces and for them there exist above-mentioned nontrivial solutions.

In the paper we consider almost geodesic mappings of the first type of spaces with affine connections onto generalized 2-Ricci-symmetric spaces, generalized 3-Ricci-symmetric spaces, and generalized m-Ricci-symmetric spaces. In either case the main equations for the mappings are obtained as a closed system of linear differential equations of Cauchy type in the covariant derivatives. The obtained results extend an amount of research produced by N.S. Sinyukov, V.E. Berezovski, J. Mikeš.