To the east is the Yudoma Range and then the Okhota, to the south the Maya and to the northwest, the Allakh-Yun, another tributary of the Aldan.

It starts about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Mus-Khaya Mountain, the highest point in the Suntar-Khayata Range.

Near here the border between the Sakha Republic and Khabarovsk Krai joins the Yudoma and follows it to its mouth.

Some 80 kilometres (50 mi) below Yudoma Cross a cataract was bypassed by a crude canal which was dry at low water.

In 1737 Stepan Krasheninnikov took three days to go downstream from Yudoma Cross to the Maya, whereas it took five to six weeks to make the same trip upstream.