The article is devoted to studying the breadth of the process of arrival of Buddhist relics to museums in the Urals, the main characteristic of which is the delivery of metal sculptures for melting down at Ural factories during the Great Patriotic War. To confirm this hypothesis, Buddhist sculptures were studied mainly in local history museums of the Greater Urals, the results covered 9 cities (Perm, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk and Kurgan regions). Patterns are noted in the sources of Buddhist sculptures getting into Ural museums, the hypothesis was confirmed, and they also discovered a way of entry that is not very typical for the Urals - the transfer of objects from the capital’s museum (from the Museum of Oriental Cultures in Moscow (now the Museum of the East) to the Perm Art Gallery). The collection of Buddhist sculpture of the Perm State Art Gallery and two sculptures from the Perm Museum of Local Lore were examined using the equipment of the Laboratory for the Examination and Restoration of Cultural Objects of the Department of the Faculty of Art History, Cultural Studies and Design of the Ural Federal University, a hand-held X-ray fluorescent analyzer of the composition of substances (spectrometer with a measurement range from Cl (Z = 17) to U (Z = 92)).