__NOTOC__ The TKB-506 () was a small handgun designed to look like a cigarette case, developed by Igor Stechkin, allegedly on the orders of the

KGB The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, Joint State Polit ...

Design

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 arms museum.Оружие И.Я. Стечкина, Официальный сайт Тульского государственного музея оружия, retrieved 2013-4-7
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Variant

TKB-506A

The 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.

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Cold War firearms of the Soviet Union KGB Multiple-barrel firearms Pistols of the Soviet Union Tula Arms Plant products {{pistol-stub

Design

Variant

TKB-506A

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