Ilya Pavlovich Mazuruk (Russian: Илья Павлович Мазурук; 20 July 1906 – 2 January 1989) was a pilot, polar explorer, and Hero of the Soviet Union. Mazuruk briefly served in the Soviet Air Force during the late 1920s and then became a Civil Air Fleet pilot. After becoming a polar aviator, he commanded a modified Tupolev TB-3 during the North Pole-1 drifting ice station mission, it was the first such mission. For his actions Mazuruk was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He became head of the Glavsevmorput Polar Aviation Directorate. After rejoining the Soviet Air Force, Mazuruk flew combat missions in the Winter War and World War II. Between 1942 and 1944, he successively led the Krasnoyarsk Air Route and the 1st Ferry Aviation Division, both responsible for ferrying Allied Lend-Lea