Ataeva was born in the village of Bamy in the Ashgabat District of the Transcaspian Region on November 7, 1917, which also happens to be the day the October Revolution began in Petrograd.
The list covers both the award for performance arts (Russian: Народный артист СССР, romanized: Narodny artist SSSR) and a separate award for visual arts (Народный художник, Narodny khudozhnik).