Mamajan Gulyýewa[a] (1 May 1920 – 27 April 2018) was a Turkmen and Soviet soprano opera singer and actress.
[3] She also created roles in numerous operas by composers from the Turkmen SSR and other Central Asian republics; among these were roles in Shasenem and Gharib, The Rose and the Nightingale, and Zohre and Tahyr by Adrian Shaposhnikov and Abadan by Ashyr Gulyýew [ru].
In March 2019, by decree of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan, the Turkmen National Conservatory was named after Maýa Gulyýewa.
[8] In October 2019, the Museum of Maýa Gulyýewa was opened on the territory of the Turkmen National Conservatory.
[9] On the occasion of the centennial of her birth, a concert of operatic music was held in the Magtymguly Theater in Ashgabat.