Yandex to Shut Market Yandex Go Marketplace in Uzbekistan on November 10

Yandex Uzbekistan will shut down its e-commerce marketplace, Market Yandex Go, on November 10, 2026, ending a service launched in the country in April 2025. The company confirmed the decision through its press service, with the Uzbek outlet Spot first reporting the closure.

The move redirects Yandex's Uzbekistan operations toward express delivery — the Lavka and Shops ("Magaziny") services inside the Yandex Go app — and away from the long-delivery marketplace model, through which users ordered goods with extended shipping times.

What happens to existing orders and sellers?

All orders placed before November 10 will be processed and delivered, the company said. Customer support will continue assisting both users and partners of the closing service after the shutdown date. Yandex has invited marketplace partners to consider switching their operations to the express-delivery services instead of exiting the Yandex ecosystem altogether.

What does this change for shoppers? Long-lead-time marketplace orders disappear from the app, while grocery and general merchandise via Lavka and Shops — with delivery starting from 15 minutes — become the company's sole retail focus in the country.

The numbers behind the pivot

Yandex Uzbekistan disclosed growth figures that explain the strategic shift:

• Orders through Lavka and Shops tripled in 2026 compared with 2025.
• The number of partners on the Shops service nearly doubled, reaching 500.
• The Lavka network operates 10 dark stores (small-format warehouses closed to shoppers, built for rapid order picking) across Uzbekistan.
• Lavka's assortment includes more than 100 items under Yandex's own private labels.

Through Lavka and Shops, users can order groceries, electronics, cosmetics and household goods with delivery from 15 minutes.

A short life for the marketplace

Market Yandex Go had a brief run. The service went live in April 2025, initially covering residents of Tashkent and part of the surrounding Tashkent Region. By summer, it had expanded its footprint to nine regions of Uzbekistan.

To support the marketplace, Yandex had earlier built a 9,000-square-meter warehouse in the Zangiata district of Tashkent Region — an infrastructure commitment that will now outlive the service it was built to serve. The company has not publicly detailed plans for the facility following the closure.

Express delivery as the surviving model

The closure consolidates Yandex's Uzbekistan retail play around rapid commerce rather than a conventional marketplace with longer fulfillment cycles. The tripling of Lavka and Shops order volumes, alongside partner growth to 500 on Shops, indicates where demand in the market has concentrated during the marketplace's 18-month existence.

For the region's competitive picture, the November 10 exit removes one long-delivery e-commerce platform from Uzbekistan's market while leaving Yandex competing in the express-delivery segment, where speed of fulfillment from dark stores substitutes for broad marketplace assortment.

Sellers on the closing marketplace now face a decision point: migrate to the Lavka and Shops partner programs, with their express-delivery operating model, or seek alternative channels before the deadline.