A small part of the northwestern shore belongs to the SW corner of Novosibirsk Oblast.

In snowy or rainy years, its surface area may reach 100 square kilometers (39 sq mi), but in periods of drought the lake may dry up becoming covered with grass and residual swamps.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century such an extremely dry period lasted for roughly ten years, until the inflowing waters of the Burla filled the lake up again.

However, in dry years there is no outflow and the Burla river ends in lake Bolshoye Topolnoye.

[4][5][6][2] Among the fish species found in the waters of the lake rudd, whitefish, bream, pike, dace, perch, sterlet, roach, carp and common bleak are worth mentioning.