 In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.In 1998, seven years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the District as it is today was formed by the amalgamation of the previous Siberian and Transbaikal Military Districts, and on their merger gave up the vast Sakha Republic (or Yakutia) to the expanded Far Eastern Military District.The Siberian Military District was originally formed in 1864, being one of the ten original military districts of the Russian Empire.