[2] Barakkol is part of the proposed Ulytau-Arganatinsk nature reserve.

Köl is the word for lake in Turkic languages, and Baraq was a khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a great-great-grandson of Genghis Khan.

[3] Barakkol is a freshwater lake of the Turgay Depression.

Lake Ashchykol lies 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the ESE.

The lake is located between the Gora Akdongul and Gora Baygetobe mountains in a shallow valley narrowing out to the north and open to the south with low hills to the northeast and northwest.