MOT Concert Tashkent: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Tashkent)

An arena built for ice, filled with Russian pop

Humo Arena was built for hockey. It opened in 2019 as home ice for the Humo Tashkent club. On October 24, 2026 the rink floor and stands belong to MOT, the Russian singer whose concert here is produced by the promoter MSTAR CO.

The building takes its name from the Humo, the mythical bird that also spreads its wings across Uzbekistan’s state emblem. Inside it is a modern bowl arena: tiered seating rises on every side of a flat floor. For a concert, that floor holds the stage and the standing or seated area in front of it.

Who MOT is, and what a crowd here sings back

MOT is the stage name of Matvey Melnikov, a singer and rapper from southern Russia. He made his name on the Black Star label in the 2010s, and he mixes rap verses with melodic, radio-friendly choruses. Songs like “Капкан” (“Kapkan”) and “Соло” (“Solo”) turned him into a household name across the Russian-speaking world.

That world still includes Tashkent. Russian is spoken widely in the capital, and Russian pop plays in taxis, cafés and malls across the city. So a MOT show here is a home crowd that knows the words, not a novelty booking. If you only know a handful of his choruses, you will hear them sung back loudly from the stands.

Dates, tickets and where the details live

The essential facts are simple:

• Date: October 24, 2026
• Venue: Humo Arena, Tashkent
• Producer: MSTAR CO

MSTAR CO publishes the ticket links, seating categories and doors time for its shows. Prices are not reproduced here, because a guessed figure is worse than none. The seating plan and current categories are on the promoter’s ticketing page.

Fans travelling from abroad usually buy online and keep the e-ticket on their phone. A screenshot or saved PDF is common practice, since mobile data inside a full arena tends to slow down.

Getting to Humo Arena

Most concert-goers arrive by taxi. Yandex Go is the standard ride-hailing app in Tashkent. It shows the fare upfront, lets you type the destination in Latin or Cyrillic script, and saves you explaining the route in Russian or Uzbek. Searching “Humo Arena” brings up the venue directly.

The Tashkent Metro is famous for its ornate Soviet-era stations and worth riding for its own sake. For the arena itself, though, a car to the door is simpler, especially for a late finish. After the encore, thousands of people request rides at once. Many fans walk a few streets away from the entrance before opening the app, so their driver can actually reach them.

October suits the trip. Days in Tashkent are usually warm and dry, but evenings cool down noticeably. That matters when you’re stepping out of a heated arena late at night, so visitors generally bring a light layer.

Plov first, concert second

There is a timing quirk to plan your day around. Plov, Uzbekistan’s national rice dish of carrots, lamb, chickpeas and cumin, is traditionally a midday meal. Big plov houses cook it in enormous cauldrons in the morning and serve until it runs out, usually by mid-afternoon.

The best-known is the Central Asian Plov Centre, often called Besh Qozon, near the Tashkent TV Tower. Rows of wide kazan pots steam outside and the dining halls fill at lunch. A concert-day lunch there is a long-standing Tashkent move, because by evening the cauldrons are empty.

By dinnertime, the city’s other dishes take over:

• Shashlik: skewers grilled over charcoal, sold everywhere from street stalls to sit-down restaurants
• Samsa: flaky pastries filled with meat or pumpkin, often baked in clay tandyr ovens
• Lagman: hand-pulled noodles in a rich broth, a filling pre-show option

Filling the hours before doors

A day around a night concert gives you time to see the city. These are the classic daytime stops:

• Chorsu Bazaar: the domed market in the old town, with stalls of dried fruit, spices, bread and fresh produce
• Hazrati Imam complex: a religious ensemble of madrasas and mosques, known for housing an early Quran manuscript
• Amir Timur Square: the leafy centre of the modern city, with the equestrian statue of Timur
• Tashkent TV Tower: the tallest structure in Central Asia, close to the plov centre

The bazaar and Hazrati Imam pair well in the morning. You can then cross town for plov and still have the afternoon free before heading to the arena.

Inside Humo Arena: how a Tashkent concert crowd behaves

The rhythm will feel familiar to anyone who has been to an arena show. Some details are worth knowing in advance.

Security and entry. Large venues in Tashkent run bag and body checks at the doors. Fans usually carry a small bag and leave behind anything bulky, like big power banks or professional cameras. Queues at the entrances build as doors approach, and the people who walk in calmly tend to be the ones who got there with time to spare.

Language. Stage banter will be in Russian. Staff and stewards speak Russian and Uzbek. A few Russian words go a long way: spasibo (thank you), gde vkhod? (where is the entrance?), moyo mesto (my seat).

Paying. Uzbekistan runs on the som. Local cards on the Humo and Uzcard networks dominate, and international Visa and Mastercard work in bigger venues but not everywhere. Visitors usually carry some som in cash for taxis, kiosks and the bazaar.

The phone-light moment. For the slower songs, thousands of phone torches go up across the tiered stands. The view from the upper rows is often better than from the floor.

Leaving. Locals tend to linger for a few minutes after the lights come up rather than joining the first surge for the exits. The taxi rush fades fast, and the walk out is easier once it does.