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The TKB-506 (russian: ТКБ-506) was a small handgun designed to look like a cigar cutter, developed by
Igor Stechkin
Igor Yakovlevich Stechkin ( Russian: Игорь Яковлевич Стечкин; 15 November 1922 – 28 November 2001) was a Russian small arms designer.
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Designs
* Stechkin automatic pistol, 9mm machine pistol
* TKB-506, prototype ...
, allegedly on the orders of the
KGB.
The dimensions of TKB-506 are 11 x 9.2 x 2 cm. Weighing 0.44 kg empty, it could fire three 7.62 mm rounds, each held in a separate barrel only 2.5 cm long and each having a separate
striker. Device number 10 can now be seen at the
Tula
Tula may refer to:
Geography
Antarctica
*Tula Mountains
* Tula Point
India
* Tulā, a solar month in the traditional Indian calendar
Iran
*Tula, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province
Italy
*Tula, Sardinia, municipality (''comune'') in the pr ...
arms museum.
[Оружие И.Я. Стечкина, Официальный сайт Тульского государственного музея оружия, retrieved 2013-4-7](_blank)
/ref>[http://nnm.ru/blogs/krapich/tulskiy_gosudarstvennyy_muzey_oruzhiya/]
TKB-506A had an identical armament, and similar weight of around 0.47 kg with ammo, but was even smaller (7.4 cm height) by doing away with the cut-through hole used for the trigger in TKB-506.
See also
* List of Russian weaponry
The following is a list of modern Russian small arms and light weapons which were in service in 2016:
Handguns
Revolvers
Pistols
Special purpose
Submachine guns
Special purpose
Shotguns
Rifles
Bolt-action
Semi-a ...
* Nazi belt buckle pistol
* NRS-2
The NRS-2 (''Нож Разведчика Стреляющий'', "Scout Firing Knife") (official GRAU index 6P25U) is a gun hybrid with a combination of a knife blade and a built-in single-shot shooting mechanism designed to fire a 7.62×41mm SP-4 ...
* S4M
References
External links
Photographs
Cold War firearms of the Soviet Union
KGB
Multiple-barrel firearms
Pistols
Tula Arms Plant products
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