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Configuration
| Specification | PMK gas mask | SSh-68 |
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| Type | gas masks[source] | Combat Helmet[source] |
| Used by | Soviet Armed Forces , and later by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation[source] | See Users[source] |
| Mask component | MB-1-80 mask[source] | — |
| Filter component | EO-1-15-01 filter[source] | — |
| Protection | toxic gases or radioactive vapors or aerosols, as well as biological agents[source] |
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| Filter connection | 40 mm GOST threads[source] | — |
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| Drinking system | drinking tube[source] | — |
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| Material | rubber is exclusively black coloured[source] | — |
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| Design and production context | The PMK gas mask represents a family of gas masks used by the Soviet Armed Forces , and later by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation . The MB-1-80 mask and the EO-1-15-01 filter are used.[source] | — |
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| Origin reported by inventory | Soviet Union[source]Inventory Origin column; table 5, row 22, cell 4; revision 1377727163; retrieved 2026-09-30 Russia[source]Inventory Origin column; table 5, row 23, cell 4; revision 1377727163; retrieved 2026-09-30 | — |
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| Place of origin | — | Soviet Union[source] |
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| Wars | — | Angolan Civil War Sino-Vietnamese War Soviet-Afghan War 1982 Lebanon War First Nagorno-Karabakh War Georgian Civil War Transnistria War War in Abkhazia Tajikistani Civil War East Prigorodny Conflict First Chechen War War of Dagestan Second Chechen War Russo-Georgian War War in Donbas Second Nagorno-Karabakh War Russo-Ukrainian war[source] |
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| Designed | — | 1968[source] |
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| Produced | — | 1968–present[source] |
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| Variants | — | See Variants[source] |
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| Former operator · Afghanistan | — | Afghanistan[source] |
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| Former operator · Artsakh | — | Artsakh[source] |
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| Former operator · Georgia | — | Georgia[source] |
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| Former operator · Lithuania | — | Lithuania[source] |
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| Former operator · Mongolia | — | Mongolia[source] |
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| Former operator · Nicaragua | — | Nicaragua[source] |
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| Former operator · North Vietnam | — | North Vietnam[source] |
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| Former operator · Ba'athist Syria | — | Ba'athist Syria[source] |
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| Former operator · Soviet Union | — | Soviet Union[source] |
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| Reported operators | — |
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