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This article lists the main events in Poland in 1946.
Leaders of Poland in 1946
Head of the State National Council – Boleslav Berut (1944-1947)
Chairman of the Provisional Government of National Unity by Edward Osubka-Moravski (1945–1947)
General Secretary of the Polish Workers’ Party – Władysław Gomulka (1943–1948)
President in exile – Vladislav Rachkevich (1939–1947)
Prime Minister in exile – Tomasz Archishevski (1944–1947)

Events
January
January 1 – Polish People’s Army units attack the UPA detachment in the village of Lyahava (now the Subcarpathian Voivodeship). After the departure of Bandera, who lost 7 people, the soldiers shot 9 villagers, including two teenagers, under the pretext of helping Bandera.
January 3 – The State National Council adopts a resolution on the nationalization of industry.
January 5 – The first trolleybus service opens in Warsaw. The movement of trolleybuses began on lines A (Trembatskaya-platz of the Lublin Union) and B (Trembatskaya-Lazenkovskaya).
January 5 – The first transport of Polish soldiers returning from Britain arrives.
January 7 – Third UPA attack on Bircha village. Units of the UPA under the command of Lieutenant Michaelo Gagno (posthumously - Lieutenant Colonel) attacked the detachment of the Polish People's Army and the Civil Militia. The attack was repelled. Killed (according to various sources) from 23 to 140 soldiers of the UPA and from 9 to 70 soldiers of LDP and MO.
January 11 – The UPA attacks the village of Cisna. 8 farms were burned, 2 of them together with the families of the owners. Several local self-defense guards were killed. Police and self-defense units were able to hold the police station. The UPA losses amounted to 27 people.
January 13 – In Ceshin, the nationalized company Zampol began production of zippers. The company has become the largest manufacturer of this type of product in the country. It existed until 1995.
January 13-16 - The V Congress of the Peasant Party (Lublin) was held.
January 17 – The Polish Theatre reopens in Warsaw. The play by Juliusz Slovacki “Lilla Veneda” (directed by Juliusz Osterva) was staged.
January 19-22 – The First Congress of the Polish Peasant Party (Mikolajczykow) was held. The party lasted until 1949, when it merged with the Peasants' Party (Lublin's) into the United Peasants' Party.
January 22 – Boleslav Berut signs a decree establishing a Supreme National Tribunal to investigate Nazi crimes and the activities of traitors to the Polish people. It operated until 1948.
January 23 – Units of the Polish People’s Army, after a clash with UPA detachments, committed a mass murder of residents of the Ukrainian village of Zavadka Morokhovska. According to various sources, between 56 and 78 people died. On March 28, 11 more people were killed. On April 30, the Ukrainian population of the village was deported to the USSR.
January 23 – A group of 81 officers and sub-officers under the command of Lieutenant Commander Kazimierz Meladowski, went to Germany to receive 4 minesweepers from Kriegsmarine into the Polish Navy.
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