Melikishvili, G. A. Nairi-Urartu: Ancient Near Eastern Materials on the History of the Peoples of Transcaucasia (Nairi-Urartu. Drevnevostochnye materialy po istorii narodov Zakavkazya), 1954. In Russian.

Меликишвили Г. А.
Наири-Урарту. Древневосточные материалы по истории народов Закавказья. I.
Тбилиси : Издательство Академии наук ГССР, 1954.
446 с. : ил. ; Увеличенный формат. Твердый издательский переплет. Тираж 1 000 экз. 
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Giorgi Melikishvili.
Nairi-Urartu: Ancient Near Eastern Materials on the History of the Peoples of Transcaucasia. I.
Tbilisi : Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the GSSR, 1954.
446 pp. : ill. ; Enlarged format. Hardcover. Edition of 1,000 copies. Includes a schematic map on an insert. 

This 1954 monograph by the distinguished historian and orientalist Giorgi Melikishvili is a foundational cornerstone of Soviet and global Urartology. Published by the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, the text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the socio-political development of the Nairi and Urartu tribal unions and kingdoms, including the arrangement of their geopolitical interactions with the Assyrian Empire and the surrounding cultures of the Armenian Highland and Transcaucasia. This work was revolutionary for its time, as Melikishvili meticulously synthesized cuneiform inscriptions with archaeological data to reconstruct the ethnic, social, and economic structures of the peoples who inhabited the region from the late 2nd millennium to the early 1st millennium BC.
Across 446 pages, Melikishvili explores the emergence of the Urartian state, its distinctive administrative systems, and the complex process of "Urartization" among local tribes. The volume is particularly prized for its scholarly rigor and the inclusion of a detailed schematic map on a special insert, which visualizes the territorial shifts of these ancient polities. Despite a very small print run of only 1,000 copies, this 1954 Tbilisi imprint became an essential primary source for any subsequent study of Ancient Near Eastern history. For bibliophiles, archaeologists, and collectors of Caucasian academic literature, it remains a rare and vital document, capturing the high-water mark of 20th-century Georgian historical scholarship in the field of ancient civilizations.