[2] In October 1987, the first TTs 22 shotgun was shown at VDNKh exhibition in Moscow.
After that, the state commission ordered to begin production of this model.
[2] All drawings, schemes and other necessary technical documents were sent from Tula to Uralsk machine-building plant "Metallist" (in Uralsk, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic).
However, after the fall of the Soviet Union Kazakhstan became an independent state.
TTs 22 (MTs 22) is a gas-operated smoothbore shotgun[1] with a short-stroke piston and adjustable gas system.