[1][2] The TKB-408 was submitted to a set of official trials conducted in 1946 to select an assault rifle for the Red Army.

The Soviet Army commission found it unsatisfactory, with the trials eventually selecting Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47.

The ejection port is located at the right side of the weapon, above the magazine; having a flip-down dust cover.

[1] In the cancelled post-apocalyptic RPG game Nuclear Union, the protagonist is shown carrying the TKB-408.

[3][4] According to in-game lore, the Korobov was revived when counter-revolutionary gangs found the documentation and the weapon began appearing in the regions of Ryazan and Tambov; the deficiencies of the weapon were corrected with it being referred to as "Object 93" (Ob'yekt 93) in reference to the year its schematics were discovered.