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A group of artists was established under the direction of E. A. Kravchenko in July 1924. The musical comedy team under the direction of Raskatov was founded by the Kazan Intermediary Bureau for Hiring Art Workers on March 30, 1927 and were toured in the cities of Termez, Bukhara, Chardzhuy, Tashkent, Fergana, Andijan, Alma-Ata, Kzyl-Orda, Chimkent, Frunze during 1928-1929.

It was registered by the Central Asian branch of Tsentrposredrabis in Tashkent with the place of work of the team in Chimkent on October 1, 1930. On January 16, 1931, according to the order of the Central Asian branch of Tsentrposredrabis, the entire team was transferred to the state service in the Chimkent Department of Entertainment Enterprises.

It was Established in 1944. Liquidated by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Uzbekistan SSR on March 19, 1948.

A theater of musical comedy (operetta) was established by order of the Department of Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the Uzbek SSR on September 1, 1938 in Tashkent. The operetta theater was liquidated by order of the Office on April 2, 1948. By order of the Office of April 26, 1948, a mobile operetta theater was organized. By order of the Directorate on January 17, 1949, the mobile operetta theater was liquidated.

The Tashkent State Russian Opera and Ballet Theater dates back to the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turk ASSR on August 24, 1918 on the nationalization for educational purposes of the building of the former private circus "Coliseum" with all the equipment in it and its transfer to the Commissariat for Public Education. By the Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of the TurkASSR on November 26, 1919, the Coliseum Theater was transferred to the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Education for the construction of an exemplary regional theater in it. By the same decree, the opera group and the drama troupe, along with the orchestra, choirs and dressing rooms, were united and transferred to the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of Education to create a single regional theater group from them. According to the decision of the joint meeting of the Tashkent Council, together with state, party and public organizations dated March 18, 1920, the Soviet Theater (formerly the Coliseum) was renamed the Soviet Theater named after Ya. M. Sverdlov. The theater merged with the Uzbek Musical Theater comedies and satires and acted under the name of the Uzbek State Musical Theater named after Sverdlov in 1933, and from May 5, 1935 under the name of the United State Theater named after Sverdlov of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Uzbek SSR. Since March 1936, the Sverdlov Theater again became an independent theater, by the Order of the Department of Arts under the Council of Ministers of the Uzbekistan SSR dated March 15, 1948, the theater was discontinued on April 10, 1948. In 1948, on the basis of the association of the Ya. M. Sverdlov and the Uzbek Opera and Ballet Theater, the Uzbek State Order of the Red Banner of Labor Opera and Ballet Theater named after Alisher Navoi was created.

The Department of Arts was established on the basis of the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the Uzbek SSR dated March 28, 1936. It was reorganized into the Main Directorate for Arts of the Ministry of Culture of the Uzbekistan SSR in June 1953. By orders of the Minister of Culture of the USSR and the Minister of Culture of the Uzbek SSR, the Main Directorate for Arts was liquidated on January 1, 1955.