[2][1] The lightweight hunting shotgun MTs 20 was designed in 1957-1960s in TsKIB SOO, although its serial production began at the Tulsky Oruzheiny Zavod.
[2][1] The first information and the first photograph of this new experimental lightweight hunting shotgun were published in August 1961.
[5] In the summer of 1969, the production of 28 and 32 gauge variants of the MTs 20 was announced.
[1] After the fall of the Soviet Union due to the economic crisis in Russian Federation in the 1990s, the prices of firearms increased.
[9] The shotgun has single column detachable box magazine and smoothbore barrel with chrome plating.