The Kukhtui river takes its beginning in the Chanda mountain ridge and runs into the Okhotsk Sea near the Okhotsk settlement. The total river length makes 384 km. In it's top and middle site the river flows along the narrow, precisely expressed valley in the mountain region. In its bottom site the river flows along the Okhotsk-Ukhtuisky hilly plain. The basic right inflow is Humnack; left inflows are Ozerny, Gusinka.
There is the Ozerny preserve in the middle current of the river.