Zviahel (Ukrainian: Звягель, IPA: [ˈzʲwʲɑɦelʲ]; Yiddish: זוויל, romanized: Zvil) is a city in Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine.

The city has previously been known as Vozviahel (Возвягель), Zviahol (Звяголь), Zviahal (Звягаль), Dzwihel and Novohrad-Volynskyi (Новоград-Волинський).

Originally known as Zviahel, the city was renamed to Novohrad-Volynskyi in 1795 after annexation of territories of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Russian Empire soon after the third Partition of Poland.

[2] The name change was then to be approved by the deputies of the Zhytomyr Oblast Council[2] and the final decision on renaming the city had then to be made by the Ukrainian parliament,[2] which took place on 16 November 2022.

[1] On 31 March 2022, the city council decided to remove the letter Z (which was a reference to the name Zviahel) from its coat of arms (it was on the bell, in both the small and full version).

Many survivors were imprisoned in harsh conditions in a ghetto and murdered in November 1942,[6] and an important part of the town was destroyed during the war.

In connection with the Law of Ukraine on decommunization in the city, the Soviet names of streets, alleys, squares and boulevards were renamed.

[13] By the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dated 16 November 2022, the historical name of Zviahel was returned to the city.