Mizoch is an urban-type settlement on the Stubelka River within the Mizoch Ridge, the center of the Mizoch community in Rivne Raion. It is served by a railway branch from the Krasne–Zdolbuniv line, and from 1940 to 1959 Mizoch was a district center. For tourists, it is a quiet town with an old park, a greenhouse, and the history of the Karvytskyi magnates.
From Two Mizoches to a City
The first written mention of the settlements Velykyi Mizoch and Malyi Mizoch dates back to 1322. In 1594, they were purchased by Prince Janusz Ostrogski, and from 1720 Mizoch belonged to the Karvytskyi magnates. On September 23, 1761, King Augustus III allowed the castellan of Zavykhost, Józef Kajetan Dunin-Karvytskyi, to found the town of Velykyi Mizoch and granted it Magdeburg rights. The city seal featured intertwined letters "M" and "W". After Volhynia became part of the Russian Empire, this coat of arms was never reconfirmed.
The Karvytskyi Estate
From the Karvytskyi estate remains the Mizoch Park by the pond. It features a brick greenhouse from the 18th–19th centuries—a rare structure for Volhynia, where exotic plants were once grown. In the 1960s–1980s, the greenhouse housed the restaurant "Blue Danube," and today it is partially ruined but still impressive in its current state.
What to See
The parish church of Saint John of Nepomuk from 1795, later rebuilt into an Orthodox church with three domes. A brick priest’s house from the 18th century on Lypky Street. The park with the pond and greenhouse. Monuments to Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Taras Shevchenko from 1957, and the grave of an unknown pilot from 1941 near the railway station.
Nature
The Mizoch Ridge is a range of hills on the border of Polissia and the Volhynian Upland. It offers picturesque landscapes, ravines, and forests, and nearby is the Derman-Ostroh National Park with swamps and lakes.
When to Visit
The best times are spring and autumn, when the park by the pond is blooming or turning yellow. Mizoch can conveniently be combined in one day with Derman, Ostroh, and Zdolbuniv.
Nearby
Zdolbuniv, Ostroh, and Mezhyritskyi Monastery are within half an hour’s drive.
How to Get There
Mizoch is the terminus of the railway branch from Zdolbuniv. Buses run from Rivne and Zdolbuniv.
