This is basicaly a drilling TOZ TP-82. Here is the skiny on this survival kit:
The principal Soviet space gun was the TOZ TP-82 pistol (known in Russia by the designation ??-82). It is a three barreled firearm designed at the nearly three hundred year old Tula Arms Factory by Soviet engineer Vladimir Alexandrovich Paramonov in 1982. Each of the three barrels are single shot, 11-inch (300mm) long break open tubes that are reloaded by 'cracking' the weapon open and inserting live rounds and removing shell casings by hand. The top two barrels were smoothbore and used a 49 caliber (12.5mm) shotgun shell while the third barrel, located underneath these two larger barrels, was rifled and chambered in the standard soviet army 5.45x39mm AK-74 assault rifle rounds. The weapon was 26 inches (670mm) long overall with the removable butt stock attached. When loaded and the stock attached it weighed just over 6 pounds (2.4kg). The buttstock hid a razor sharp machete that could be removed and used by itself.
The cosmonaut would carry an ammunition belt with a wide range of rounds available to him. The shotgun would have ten rounds of medium sized shot comparable to a western 28-gauge shotgun to be used for hunting small animals if needed to provide food for cosmonauts marooned in Siberia. The rifle barrel was issued ten rounds of ammunition. These were custom made soft pointed 55-grain (3.6 gram) rounds for hunting medium game or killing wolves with an effective range of some 200 meters. Finally five red signal flares were added to the lot. The flares would be capable of being shot from one of the smoothbore shotgun barrels and could reach an altitude of some 150 meters (492 feet) and burn there for about ten seconds. When carried on the Soyuz craft these weapons were stored unloaded in a sealed metal container stowed between two couches.
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