The Khakasian state nature reserve is situated in the Southern Siberia on the northern slope of the West Sayan Mountains and in the mountain steppes of Minusinsk basin. It includes the territories of Tashtypsky, Ust-Abakansky, Bogradsky, Shirinsky and Ordzhonikidzevsky districts of Khakasia. The nature reserve is compound of 9 territories the whole area of which is 267 565.3 hectares. The biggest territories are "Small Abakan" (97 829 hectares) and "Lykovy territory" (142 441 hectares). "Small Abakan" is situated in the basin of Abakan river. "Lykovy territory" is a place in the upper part of Big Abakan river where a settlement of Lykovy family was found in the 1980ies.

The rest seven territories are "Podzaplotslie marshes" (5181 hectares), "Itkul lake" (5547 hectares), "Bele lake" (5292 hectares), "Shira lake" (1397 hecatres), "Oglahty" (2590 hectares), "Kamyzyakskaya steppe and Uluh-Kol lake" (4789.3 hectares) and "Hol-Bogaz" (2499 hectares).

Ornithological reserve "Uluh-Kol" is included in the list of valuable water-marsh territories defined by the Ramsar convention.