Valery Kuzmin

{{Infobox person

| name = Valery Kuzmin

| image = Valery Ilyich Kuzmin.jpg

| birth_name = Valery Ilyich Kuzmin

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|11|7}}

| birth_place = Innyakh, Olyokminsky District, Yakut ASSR, RSFSR

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|6|1|1918|11|7}}

| death_place = Yakutsk, Soviet Union

| nationality = {{USSR|Soviet Union}}

| awards = Hero of Socialist Labour

}}

Valery Ilyich Kuzmin ({{Langx|ru|Валерий Ильич Кузьмин}}; 7 November 1918 – 1 June 1983) was an aviation pioneer in Yakutia who became the director of the Yakutsk division of Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline, a recipient of the titles Honoured Pilot of the USSR as well as Hero of Socialist Labor. He was also the first ethnic Yakut pilot.{{Cite web|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=17092|title=Кузьмин Валерий Ильич|last=Kargapoltsev|first=Sergey|date=|website=warheroes.ru|language=ru|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-04-15}}