it stretches on the high right bank of the worskla, between worskla and gotnja. its territory covers . geographically the area belongs to the southern part of the forest-steppe zone. the nature reserve is bordered to the north-east to the village of krasny kutok in the southeast, borisovka in the north and the south and west by the worsklatal. on the left bank of the vorskla, is the village of dubino (landsgemeinde belenkoje). the territory of the forest itself is part of the rural community kryukovo.