Question: The recipient of the 1982 Hero of Socialist Labour award played which lead character created by novelist Yulian Semyonov?

Context articles: Confrontation (TV series)
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left
Yulian Semyonov bibliography
Stierlitz
Socialist Labour Alliance
Revolutionary Socialist Party (UK)
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Major Whirlwind (TV series)
Seventeen Moments of Spring

Confrontation or (Russian: Противостояние , "Protivostoyanie " ) is a 1985 Soviet six-part television film directed by Semyon Aranovich based on the novel by Yulian Semyonov.
TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (Russian: ТАСС уполномочен заявить... , translit.
 "TASS upolnomochen zayavit...") is a 1984 Soviet spy miniseries directed by Vladimir Fokin.
 The series is set in Cold War era and portrays the struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies.
 It is based on a novel by the same name by Yulian Semyonov (the author of cult spy series "Seventeen Moments of Spring").
 "17 Moments" star Vyacheslav Tikhonov played KGB General Konstantinov, the protagonist of the "TASS..." series.
The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left (German: "Deutsche Sozialistische Arbeitspartei in Polen – Linke" , 'DSAP–Linke', Polish: "Niemiecka Socjalistyczna Partia Robotnicza w Polsce – Lewica" ) was a political party in Poland.
 The party was founded on October 3, 1930, as a leftist split from the German Socialist Labour Party in Poland (DSAP) in Łódź.
In 1960, reporter Yulian Semyonov became a member of the USSR Union of Writers and after that actively worked as a writer within almost 30 years.
 Semyonov achieved a wide renown in the USSR with his novel series, “Political Chronicles” by the common name, united by the principal character, Soviet scout Isaev – Stierlitz.
 Time Magazine's reporter John Kohan defined him as "the Soviet James Bond".
 In the USSR (and later in Russia) there were published more than 100 million of this series books.
 The novels of this cycle were translated into many world languages.
 Later, in so called “Militia Series” novels (“Petrovka, 38”, “Ogareva, 6”), Semyonov introduced the “police procedural” construction in Soviet literature.
Max Otto von Stierlitz (Russian: Шти́рлиц , ] ) is the lead character in a popular Russian book series written in the 1960s by novelist Yulian Semyonov and of the television adaptation "Seventeen Moments of Spring", starring Vyacheslav Tikhonov, as well as in feature films, produced in the Soviet era, and in a number of sequels and prequels.
 Other actors portrayed Stierlitz in several other films.
 Stierlitz has become a stereotypical spy in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, similar to James Bond in Western culture.
The Socialist Labour Alliance was a far left political alliance in Ireland, seen by some of its members as a political party in process of formation.
 It was initiated in 1970 by the Socialist Labour Action Group (SLAG), composed of members of the Labour Party, including the Young Socialists, campaigning for a more left wing programme.
The Revolutionary Socialist Party, initially known as the International Socialist Labour Party, was a political party in Britain.
 It emerged from a Scotland-based faction of the Socialist Labour Party, which had left the SLP in the early 1930s.
 The party was mainly based in Edinburgh, where it had its office and most of the party members lived.
 Members were also present in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Yorkshire.
 The party published "The British Revolutionary Socialist".
Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (Russian: Вячесла́в Васи́льевич Ти́хонов ; 8 February 1928 in Pavlovsky Posad – 4 December 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor whose best known role was as Soviet spy, Stierlitz in the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring".
 He was a recipient of numerous state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).
Major Whirlwind or (Russian: Майор "Вихрь" , "Mayor "Vikhr" " ) is a 1967 television film directed by Yevgeny Tashkov and based on the novel by Yulian Semyonov.
Seventeen Moments of Spring (Russian: Семнадцать мгновений весны , "Semnadtsat' mgnoveniy vesny " ) is a 1972 Soviet twelve-part television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yulian Semyonov.