This serial was about the life of Soviet spy Maksim Isaev operating in Nazi Germany under the name Max Otto von Stirlitz, played by the leading Soviet film star Vyacheslav Tikhonov.
The series evoked people’s affection for the image of Stierlitz, acted by Vyacheslav Tikhonov.
Vyacheslav Molotov | Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov | Vyacheslav von Plehve | Vyacheslav Vasilevsky | Vyacheslav Tikhonov | Vyacheslav Shokurov | Vyacheslav Menzhinsky | Vyacheslav Borisov | Vyacheslav | Andrey Tikhonov | Vyacheslav Zaytsev | Vyacheslav Spesivtsev | Vyacheslav Rybakov | Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Kuznetsov | Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov | Vyacheslav Kyrylenko | Vyacheslav Klykov | Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet) | Vyacheslav Ivanov | Vyacheslav Butusov | Tikhonov regularization | Grand Duke Vyacheslav's monument in Pavlovsk. | Alexander Tikhonov |
When his portrayer Vyacheslav Tikhonov died in December 2009, the Foreign Intelligence Service—one of the successor organisations of the former Soviet KGB—sent its condolences to his family.