diff --git a/cmd/neofs-adm/internal/modules/morph/download.go b/cmd/neofs-adm/internal/modules/morph/download.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a8e72ce2d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/neofs-adm/internal/modules/morph/download.go
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package morph
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/google/go-github/v39/github"
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+)
+
+func downloadContractsFromGithub(cmd *cobra.Command) (string, error) {
+	gcl := github.NewClient(nil)
+	release, _, err := gcl.Repositories.GetLatestRelease(context.Background(), "nspcc-dev", "neofs-contract")
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("can't fetch release info: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	cmd.Printf("Found %s (%s), downloading...\n", release.GetTagName(), release.GetName())
+
+	var url string
+	for _, a := range release.Assets {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(a.GetName(), "neofs-contract") {
+			url = a.GetBrowserDownloadURL()
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if url == "" {
+		return "", errors.New("can't find contracts archive in release assets")
+	}
+
+	resp, err := http.Get(url)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("can't fetch contracts archive: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	f, err := os.CreateTemp("", "neofs-contract-*.tar.gz")
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("can't allocate temporary file: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	_, err = io.Copy(f, resp.Body)
+	return f.Name(), err
+}
diff --git a/cmd/neofs-adm/internal/modules/morph/initialize.go b/cmd/neofs-adm/internal/modules/morph/initialize.go
index 1ca762ff87..34d178e0b3 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-adm/internal/modules/morph/initialize.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-adm/internal/modules/morph/initialize.go
@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ func newInitializeContext(cmd *cobra.Command, v *viper.Viper) (*initializeContex
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing contracts path: %w", err)
 		}
+		if ctrPath == "" {
+			cmd.Println("Contracts flag is missing, latest release will be fetched from Github.")
+			ctrPath, err = downloadContractsFromGithub(cmd)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			cmd.Printf("Saved to %s\n", ctrPath)
+		}
 	}
 
 	ns, err := c.GetNativeContracts()
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 4bb5b853b5..ca87ae54da 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ module github.com/nspcc-dev/neofs-node
 go 1.16
 
 require (
+	github.com/google/go-github/v39 v39.2.0
 	github.com/google/uuid v1.2.0
 	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.4
 	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.13.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index b010e8b463..e7f1556a5f 100644
Binary files a/go.sum and b/go.sum differ