1946 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Mikhail Kalinin, Nikolay Shvernik
- Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin
Events
February
- February 10 — Legislation Elections are held for the first time in nearly a decade.
December
- December 15 — the Iran crisis of 1946 ends with the Dissolution of the Azerbaijan People's Government and the Republic of Mahabad following the withdraw of the last remaining Soviet troops from Iran.
Births
- January 15 — Valentin Dubinin, Acting Governor of Primorsky Krai
- January 18 — Victoria Fyodorova, Russian-American actress and author
- January 24 — Vasily Zakharyashchev, politician
- February 13 — Lev Korshunov, 2nd Governor of Altai Krai
- February 22 — Nagima Aitkhozhina, Kazakh biologist
- February 26 — Viktor Kazantsev, envoy of the Russian President to the Southern Federal District
- March 23 — Lyudmila Byakova, Russian seamstress
- March 25 — Anatoly Guzhvin, 1st Governor of Astrakhan Oblast
- April 2 — Beno Axionov, Russian-Moldovan actor, director, drama teacher and screenwriter
- April 22 — Allahverdi Baghirov, Azerbaijani officer
- April 25 — Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Founder and 1st Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- May 14 — Anatoliy Zheglanov, Soviet and Russian ski jumper
- May 17 — Galina Starovoytova, dissident
- June 2 — Valery Fateyev, 1st Governor of Smolensk Oblast
- July 18 — Kanat Saudabayev, 6th State Counsellor of Kazakhstan
- July 23 — Alexander Kaidanovsky, Soviet and Russian actor and film director
- July 25 — Vasily Dyakonov, 1st Governor of Krasnodar Krai
- August 3 — Nikolai Burlyayev, Soviet and Russian actor and film director
- August 4 — Ramazan Abdulatipov, 4th Head of the Republic of Dagestan
- August 15 — Anatoly Kvashnin, 4th Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces
- August 19 — Zoja Rudnova, Soviet and Russian international table tennis player
- August 20 — Valentin Vlasov, 2nd Mayor of Arkhangelsk
- August 26 — Liana Isakadze, Georgian violinist and conductor
- September 13 — Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer
- September 21
- *Mikhail Kovalchuk, Russian physicist and official
- *Mart Siimann, 12th Prime Minister of Estonia
- October 4 — Yevgeny Kharitonov, 3rd Governor of Krasnodar Krai
- October 6 — Yekaterina Gradova, Soviet and Russian film actress
- October 8 — Aleksandr Gorshkov, Soviet and Russian ice dancer
- November 22 — Oleg Kagan, violinist
- November 27 — Nina Maslova, Soviet and Russian actress
- December 31 — Lyudmila Pakhomova, ice dancer
Deaths
- January 2 — Fabijan Abrantovich, civic and religious leader
- May 1 — Israfil Mammadov, Red Army lieutenant
- May 13 — Aleksei Bach, biochemist and revolutionary
- June 3 — Mikhail Kalinin, 1st Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- July 8 — Alexander Alexandrov, composer
- July 26 — Alexander Vvedensky, Orthodox religious leader
- August 1
- *Andrey Vlasov, commander of the Russian Liberation Army
- *Sergei Bunyachenko, Red Army defector
- *Fyodor Truhin, major general and defector during WWII
- November 4 — Semyon Bychkov, military pilot and defector during WWII
- November 11 — Nikolay Burdenko, surgeon
- November 18 — Vincentas Borisevičius, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Telsiai Diocese
- December 6 — Maximilian Steinberg, composer of classical music