Kapova Cave

Shulgan-Tash Cave (Bashkir: Шүлгәнташ, romanized: Şölgəntaş, [ʃɵl.ɣæn.ˈtʰɑʂ]), also known as Kapova Cave (Russian: Капова пещера, romanized: Kapova peshchera), is a limestone karst cave in the Burzyansky District of Bashkortostan, Russia. It is located in the southern Ural Mountains, on the Belaya River in the Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve, approximately 200 km (120 mi) south-east of Ufa.

The cave is best known for the Upper Paleolithic rock paintings and drawings (more than 190, mostly in a precarious state of preservation), including the only known prehistoric painting of a (two-humped) camel. They were added to the World Heritage List in 2025. Approximately 30–50 images are relatively well-preserved. The most famous of them—of mammoths, horses, rhinoceroses, bison, and a camel—are located quite far from the entrance (300 meters and more). These images are made with red ochre, sometimes with outlines in charcoal.