Mizoch

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Mizoch is city in Zdolbunivskyi Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine, 30 km far from Rivne. The first written mention concerns to 1322. Authentic certificate on existence of city is known since 1429. In 1761 king August III allowed to base city Velykyi Mizoch (Big Mizoch) in Luts'k district and gives it the Magdeburg Right (right of civic self-government). In World War II there was a Jewish ghetto. Gonfalon and modern emblem was approved by city council at September 11, 1996. Ruslan Postolovskiy, rector of Rivne Intitute of Slavonic Studies, was born here.

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