During the Civil War, the Soviet authorities carried out a campaign to uncover and confiscate the holy relics that were kept in Orthodox churches and monasteries. However, this first anti-church campaign did not touch the relics of the Solovki saints Zosima, Savvaty and Herman. This situation was explained, first of all, by the fact that the Solovki Islands established Soviet power only in February 1920 and faced the task of adapting the former monastic economy for the needs of a new, socialist state. Meanwhile, in the conditions of the new economic policy, few separate autopsy of the relics continued to be made. However, they were no longer accompanied by such a noisy propaganda campaign as before. A vivid example of this is the autopsy of the relics of the Solovki saints, produced in September 21-22, for the purpose of anti-religious propaganda. The withdrawn relics of Zosima, Savvaty and Herman were kept in the historical and archaeological section of the museum of the Solovki Society of Local History, which existed at the Solovki camp. On January 19, 1940, after the abolition of the camp, the relics were transferred to the Central Antireligious Museum in Moscow. After the museum was closed in 1946, the relics of the Solovetsky saints came to the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (now the State Museum of the History of Religion), then located in the Kazan Cathedral of Leningrad. Since the late 1980s, due to changes in state-church relations, the Museum of the History of Religion began to transmit shrines and objects of liturgical use to temples and monasteries. June 16, 1990 was the transfer of the relics of Zosima, Savvaty and Herman of the Russian Orthodox Church, their relics were solemnly transferred from the Kazan Cathedral to the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, which became their temporary place of residence. In the summer of 1990, the Solovetsky Monastery resumed its activities. In August 1992, the relics of Saints Zosima, Savvaty and Herman returned under the shelter of their native monastery.
