diff --git a/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config.go b/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config.go
index a5375efb..51f8a393 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-node/config/engine/config.go
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ const (
 func IterateShards(c *config.Config, required bool, f func(*shardconfig.Config)) {
 	c = c.Sub(subsection)
 
-	def := c.Sub("default")
 	c = c.Sub("shard")
+	def := c.Sub("default")
 
 	i := uint64(0)
 	for ; ; i++ {
diff --git a/config/example/node.yaml b/config/example/node.yaml
index 7440d797..caac66f4 100644
--- a/config/example/node.yaml
+++ b/config/example/node.yaml
@@ -104,38 +104,39 @@ storage:
   # note: shard configuration can be omitted for relay node (see `node.relay`)
   shard_pool_size: 15 # size of per-shard worker pools used for PUT operations
   shard_ro_error_threshold: 100 # amount of errors to occur before shard is made read-only (default: 0, ignore errors)
-  default: # section with the default shard parameters
-    resync_metabase: true  # sync metabase with blobstor on start, expensive, leave false until complete understanding
-
-    writecache:
-      enabled: true
-      memcache_capacity: 2147483648  # approximate RAM usage limit for "small" objects, bytes
-      small_object_size: 16384  # size threshold for "small" objects which are cached in key-value DB, not in FS, bytes
-      max_object_size: 134217728  # size threshold for "big" objects which bypass write-cache and go to the storage directly, bytes
-      workers_number: 30  # number of write-cache flusher threads
-
-    metabase:
-      perm: 0644  # permissions for metabase files(directories: +x for current user and group)
-      max_batch_size: 200
-      max_batch_delay: 20ms
-
-    blobstor:
-      compress: false  # turn on/off zstd(level 3) compression of stored objects
-      perm: 0644  # permissions for blobstor files(directories: +x for current user and group)
-      depth: 5  # max depth of object tree storage in FS
-      small_object_size: 102400  # size threshold for "small" objects which are cached in key-value DB, not in FS, bytes
-
-      blobovnicza:
-        size: 4194304  # approximate size limit of single blobovnicza instance, total size will be: size*width^(depth+1), bytes
-        depth: 1  # max depth of object tree storage in key-value DB
-        width: 4   # max width of object tree storage in key-value DB
-        opened_cache_capacity: 50  # maximum number of opened database files
-
-    gc:
-      remover_batch_size: 200  # number of objects to be removed by the garbage collector
-      remover_sleep_interval: 5m  # frequency of the garbage collector invocation
 
   shard:
+    default: # section with the default shard parameters
+      resync_metabase: true  # sync metabase with blobstor on start, expensive, leave false until complete understanding
+
+      writecache:
+        enabled: true
+        memcache_capacity: 2147483648  # approximate RAM usage limit for "small" objects, bytes
+        small_object_size: 16384  # size threshold for "small" objects which are cached in key-value DB, not in FS, bytes
+        max_object_size: 134217728  # size threshold for "big" objects which bypass write-cache and go to the storage directly, bytes
+        workers_number: 30  # number of write-cache flusher threads
+
+      metabase:
+        perm: 0644  # permissions for metabase files(directories: +x for current user and group)
+        max_batch_size: 200
+        max_batch_delay: 20ms
+
+      blobstor:
+        compress: false  # turn on/off zstd(level 3) compression of stored objects
+        perm: 0644  # permissions for blobstor files(directories: +x for current user and group)
+        depth: 5  # max depth of object tree storage in FS
+        small_object_size: 102400  # size threshold for "small" objects which are cached in key-value DB, not in FS, bytes
+
+        blobovnicza:
+          size: 4194304  # approximate size limit of single blobovnicza instance, total size will be: size*width^(depth+1), bytes
+          depth: 1  # max depth of object tree storage in key-value DB
+          width: 4   # max width of object tree storage in key-value DB
+          opened_cache_capacity: 50  # maximum number of opened database files
+
+      gc:
+        remover_batch_size: 200  # number of objects to be removed by the garbage collector
+        remover_sleep_interval: 5m  # frequency of the garbage collector invocation
+
     0:
       mode: "read-only"  # mode of the shard, must be one of the: "read-write" (default), "read-only"
       resync_metabase: false  # sync metabase with blobstor on start, expensive, leave false until complete understanding