On 18 January 1946, Gotthold Starke, Counsellor of the German Embassy in Moscow, carried out the last wishes of the former German Ambassador in Moscow, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg.

The city of Nikolayev. At 1 p.m. on 17 January 1946 at the Regional Theatre named after Chkalov, Colonel of Justice A.S. Zonov hands down a sentence in the case of Nazi atrocities on the territory of Nikolayev and the Nikolayev Oblast. Seven of the nine defendants are sentenced to death, the rest to hard labour.

15 January 1946 – a war crimes trial involving Nazis accused of committing atrocities in Belarus commenced at the Red Army House.

At the morning session of 14 January 1946, Colonel Harry Phillimore of the British prosecution team began to read out evidence of the individual guilt of Defendant Karl Dönitz.

On 13 January, 1946, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the ratification of the treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Polish Republic of the Soviet-Polish state border" was issued.

In early 1946, prosecutors started to deal with proving the individual responsibility of the defendants. On 11 January, a concentration camp prisoner was for the first time summoned to testify. Czech Doctor Frantisek Blaha stayed in the Dachau concentration camp from 1941 until its liberation by American troops in April 1945.

On 10 January, at 16:00, the Chairman of the UN Preparatory Commission and Colombian delegate to the UN Eduardo Zuleta delivered a speech, announcing the opening of the first session of the UN General Assembly. 400 journalists and 300 guests attended the event in the Central Hall.

Some Western media outlets reported that the USSR had declared war on Turkey. The main news agency of the Soviet Union, the TASS, described the information as rumors and provocation. The TASS’ denial was published in the Pravda newspaper on 9 January, 1946.

British Assistant Trial Counsel Elwyn Jones presented the Case of Aggression as a Basic Nazi Idea based on the teachings of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

The verdict executed in the case of atrocities committed in Leningrad Region.

Former subjects of the Russian Empire, who emigrated to China (predominantly the city of Harbin) after the Bolshevik victory, applied for Soviet citizenship en masse.

The US Army lifted a partial ban on marriage of military personnel to ‘enemy aliens.’

Raising taxes for military needs was introduced on 1 January 1942 by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. By a decision of this body on 6 July 1945, the levying of the war tax was abolished starting from 1 January 1946. The last month subjected to taxation was November 1945.