diff --git a/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/UserProfileStore.ts b/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/UserProfileStore.ts
index 8a970da95c..c6caa3f682 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/UserProfileStore.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/UserProfileStore.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common'
 import { EventEmitter } from 'events'
 import KeyValueStore from 'orbit-db-kvstore'
 import OrbitDB from 'orbit-db'
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ export const base64DataURLToByteArray = (contents: string): Uint8Array => {
   return new Uint8Array(bytes)
 }
 
+@Injectable()
 export class UserProfileStore {
   public orbitDb: OrbitDB
   public store: KeyValueStore<UserProfile>
@@ -65,13 +67,11 @@ export class UserProfileStore {
   public static readonly codec = dagCbor
   public static readonly hasher = sha256
 
-  constructor(orbitDb: OrbitDB) {
-    this.orbitDb = orbitDb
-  }
-
-  public async init(emitter: EventEmitter) {
+  public async init(orbitDb: OrbitDB, emitter: EventEmitter) {
     logger('Initializing user profiles key/value store')
 
+    this.orbitDb = orbitDb
+
     this.store = await this.orbitDb.keyvalue<UserProfile>('user-profiles', {
       replicate: false,
       Index: UserProfileKeyValueIndex,
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/storage.module.ts b/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/storage.module.ts
index 6d4efd74a6..9a9013f7c1 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/storage.module.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/storage.module.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import { Module } from '@nestjs/common'
 import { StorageService } from './storage.service'
+import { UserProfileStore } from './UserProfileStore'
 import { LocalDbModule } from '../local-db/local-db.module'
 import { IpfsFileManagerModule } from '../ipfs-file-manager/ipfs-file-manager.module'
 
 @Module({
   imports: [LocalDbModule, IpfsFileManagerModule],
-  providers: [StorageService],
-  exports: [StorageService],
+  providers: [StorageService, UserProfileStore],
+  exports: [StorageService, UserProfileStore],
 })
 export class StorageModule {}
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/storage.service.ts b/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/storage.service.ts
index 6d1fa50e17..47ed2fa1b1 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/storage.service.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/nest/storage/storage.service.ts
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ export class StorageService extends EventEmitter {
   private certificatesRequests: EventStore<string>
   private communityMetadata: KeyValueStore<CommunityMetadata>
 
-  public userProfileStore: UserProfileStore
-
   private ipfs: IPFS
   private orbitDb: OrbitDB
   private filesManager: IpfsFileManagerService
@@ -83,7 +81,8 @@ export class StorageService extends EventEmitter {
     @Inject(QUIET_DIR) public readonly quietDir: string,
     @Inject(ORBIT_DB_DIR) public readonly orbitDbDir: string,
     @Inject(IPFS_REPO_PATCH) public readonly ipfsRepoPath: string,
-    private readonly lazyModuleLoader: LazyModuleLoader
+    private readonly lazyModuleLoader: LazyModuleLoader,
+    public readonly userProfileStore: UserProfileStore
   ) {
     super()
   }
@@ -233,8 +232,7 @@ export class StorageService extends EventEmitter {
     this.logger('4/6')
     await this.createDbForCommunityMetadata()
     this.logger('5/6')
-    this.userProfileStore = new UserProfileStore(this.orbitDb)
-    await this.userProfileStore.init(this)
+    await this.userProfileStore.init(this.orbitDb, this)
     this.logger('6/6')
     await this.initAllChannels()
     this.logger('Initialized DBs')