Detailed tournament results, large number of crosstables, chess players, history of chess in various parts of the USSR in 1946. Information about the USSR championships (including semi-finals), women, juniors, team events, championships and chess in individual Soviet republics, etc. There are annotated games in the book, but there are not many of them. Instead, the author emphasizes bringing as much information as possible. Much of this has not yet been published in a book form. Accompanied with many illustrations and photos from contemporary sources, these are sometimes of lower quality. Contains only practical chess; correspondence or composition chess is not here. The author has written several books on the history of chess in the USSR. Each book is dedicated to one year. All these books are published in small editions of only a few dozen copies. For this volume only 30 copies were published. Size ca 29 x 21 cm.