Information: - Brest (, "Bieracie"; "Brisk"), formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk ("-i" in Belarusian), is a city (population 310,800 in 2010) in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet. It is the capital city of the Brest voblast. - Operation Barbarossa (German: "Unternehmen Barbarossa") was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which was launched on Sunday 22 June 1941. The operation was driven by an ideological desire to conquer the Western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slav labour for the war effort, to seize the oil resources in the Caucasus and to seize the grain supply in the Ukraine. - Brest Fortress (' '), formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century Russian fortress in Brest, Belarus, the former Byelorussian SSR. Following the war, in 1965 the title Hero-Fortress was given to the Fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the first weeks of the German-Soviet War, specifically the invasion on June 22, 1941 (Operation Barbarossa). The title Hero-Fortress corresponds to the title Hero City, that was awarded to an eventual total of twelve Soviet cities. Brest Fortress is situated at an height of 135 meters. - Belarus ( lat. ', ), officially the Republic of Belarus, formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia (though this name is no longer used in Belarus itself, even in Russian language), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital and most populous city is Minsk. Over 40% of its is forested. Its strongest economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including the Principality of Polotsk (11th to 14th centuries), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. - The Kholm Gate was one of the 4 gates leading into the Citadel of the Russian Brest Fortress . Kholm ( Russian : ) is the Russian version of the town name Chem as the road starting at the gate was once leading to Chem . Hence the name of the gate Kholm Gate . It was designed in a classic style in the early 19th century . It faces the southern branch of the Mukhavets River . The outside facade of the gate was originally decorated with fanciful little turrets and a medallion . They are still there - the little turrets and the medallion -- but they were disfigured forever during the opening hours of the war in June 1941 . All the red bricks in the Kholm Gate are scarred by bullets and shells and blackened by smoke . Today this gate is an icon of the Brest Fortress . - Chem Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 19751998, superseded by Lublin Voivodeship. Its capital city was Chem. - Lublin Voivodeship, or Lublin Province (in Polish, "wojewodztwo lubelskie" ), is a voivodeship, or province, located in southeastern Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, Chem, Zamo, Biaa Podlaska and (partially) Tarnobrzeg and Siedlce Voivodeships, pursuant to Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province is named after its largest city and regional capital, Lublin, and its territory is made of four historical lands: the western part of the voivodeship, with Lublin itself, belongs to Lesser Poland, the eastern part of Lublin Area belongs to Red Ruthenia, and the northeast belongs to Polesie and Podlasie. - Zamo (Yiddish: Zamoshtsh) is a city in southeastern Poland, situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), about from Lublin, from Warsaw and from the border with Ukraine. In 2014, the population was 65,149. - Chem (, meaning "a hill") is a city in eastern Poland with 67,702 inhabitants (2007). It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamo and south of Biaa Podlaska, some from the border with Ukraine. Chem used to be the capital of the Chem Voivodeship until it became part of the Lublin Voivodeship in 1999. - Ukraine (tr. ) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland and Slovakia to the west, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world. It has a population of about 44.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. - Lublin (, "Lublin", ) is the ninth largest city in Poland and the second largest city of Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship ("province") with a population of 349,103 (March 2011). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of the Vistula River, and is located approximately to the southeast of Warsaw. - Hero City is a Soviet honorary title awarded for outstanding heroism during World War II (Eastern Front was known in the former Soviet Union as The Great Patriotic War). It was awarded to twelve cities of the Soviet Union. In addition the Brest Fortress was awarded an equivalent title of Hero Fortress. This symbolic distinction for a city corresponds to the individual distinction Hero of the Soviet Union. - Biaa Podlaska, is a city in eastern Poland with 58,047 inhabitants (2005). It is situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the capital of Biaa Podlaska Voivodeship (19751998). It is the capital of Biaa Podlaska County, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The city lies on the Krzna river. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'kholm gate' exhibits the relationship of 'country'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - belarus - germany - hungary - moldova - nazi germany - poland - principality of polotsk - russia - russian empire - ukraine - world
The answer to this question is:
belarus