ShanaiKahr was a settlement on the planet Vulcan and was located fifteen kilometers away from ShiKahr. The city was home to the ShanaiKahr General Academy and was home to the Terran embassy. (TOS novel: Mindshadow) Before the events of the Vulcan Reformation, ShanaiKahr was led by a powerful and vicious Kolinahru mind lord called Zakal. (TOS novel: The Lost Years) Tu'Pari and Kovar had relatives at ShanaiKahr in the time before the events of the Sundering. (TOS - Vulcan's Soul novel: Exodus)