Caspian Depression
The Maly Uzen has its sources north of the town Yershov, on the western edge of the Obshchy Syrt plateau in Russia, and flows in a generally southerly direction over the steppes of the Caspian Depression. It terminates in Lake Sorajdyn of West-Kazakhstan, part of a network of small lakes and swamps called the Kamysh-Samarsk lakes. The Maly Uzen runs parallel to the Bolshoy Uzen River, some further east.