Trust and economic growth in Russian society

Among the factors which influence the economic growth the author points out trust. The article presents the analysis of the level of trust to social institutions in modern Russia and studies the relation between the level of trust and the level of GDP per capita. For the research we used the empirical data of analytic center "Levada", World Values Survey (WVS) and The World Bank for the years 2010-2013 in 52 countries presented in publicly available sources. The calculations show that there is moderate relation between the level of trust and the level of GDP per capita. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.