Lomidze, Zurab. Masters of the Seas (Zghvata mp'q'robelni). Illustrated by I. Klibadze. Tbilisi, 1968. In Georgian.

ლომიძე, ზურაბ. ზღვათა მპყრობელნი / ზურაბ ლომიძე ; რედაქტორი ნ. ქართველიშვილი ; მხატვარი ი. ქლიბაძე.
თბილისი : "ნაკადული", 1968. 110 გვერდი, ილუსტრაციებით ; 20 სმ.
რბილი გარეკანი, სურათებიანი სუპერ-გარეკანით. ტირაჟი 5 000 ც. 
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Lomidze, Zurab. Masters of the Seas / Zurab Lomidze ; editor N. Kartvelishvili ; illustrated by I. Klibadze.
Tbilisi : "Nakaduli", 1968. 110 pp., illustrated ; 20 cm.
Paper wrappers, with a pictorial dust jacket. Print run of 5,000 copies. 
Wrappers very good: clean, unmarked. Dust jacket good: minor edge and corner chipping, not affecting text. Text block good: paper evenly age-toned as expected for its age, clean and complete.

A work of Soviet popular naval history centered on the wartime and postwar record of Georgians in the Soviet fleet, by the journalist Zurab Lomidze. The book opens with the Black Sea Fleet's role in the defense against fascist Germany between 1941 and 1945, tracing the careers of individual Georgian sailors and officers the author judged deserving of a fuller place in naval history, and moves on to the postwar Pacific fleet and the Soviet Far East fishing and merchant marine industry, where Georgian administrators played an outsized role. Its central figure is Shalva Georgievich Nadibaidze (1907, Passanauri, Georgia – 1964, Vladivostok), who led the Soviet Far East fishing industry for decades, was twice awarded the Order of Lenin, and became one of the best-known Georgians associated with the Pacific coast. Following his death, a fish-processing combine was renamed in his honour, and in June 1966 a new vessel named "Shalva Nadibaidze" was launched at Vladivostok, an event the book describes as a symbol of the historical friendship between Georgia and the Soviet Far East. Illustrated with woodcut-style line drawings by I. Klibadze, including the dramatic wartime convoy scene on the pictorial dust jacket, the book belongs to a specific genre of late-Soviet regional patriotic journalism: local-language accounts written to give a national republic's readers a sense of their own people's contribution to Union-wide history, in this case the navy and the maritime economy of the Far East.