Abstract: The subject of this research is the peculiarities of interpersonal and institutional trust indicators in six Russian regions. Trust is the main condition of establishment of social ties, enhance social harmony and maintain a significant cooperation of social institutions and groups. Maintaining the integrity of the society, sustainable social order is based on trust. The research of trust of people to each other, to government, to legal and public institutions contributes to the creation of more accurate idea of what existing in this area problems are priority. The research methodology is based on the principles of systematic and integrative approaches, allowing to consider the formation of trust in the formation of civil society. The primary data collection was done by a questionnaire in six Russian regions: the Altai Territory, the Jewish Autonomous Region, the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Kemerovo Region, the Omsk Region, the Orenburg Region (total sample size amounted to n=2400, the age of the respondents was from 18 to 70 years). The novelty of the research is to obtain new data of state of institutional and interpersonal trust as a factor of formation of institutions of civil society in different socio-economic development of the regions of the Russian Federation. Based on the data obtained conclusions about the moderate level of generalized interpersonal trust in modern Russia were made. The social institutions with the highest trust level are the institution of presidency and the Russian army, the institutions with the lowest level are political parties. The trust level to the institutions of civil society is average. Among the studied regions, the highest levels of both interpersonal trust and confidence to social institutions were founded in the Jewish Autonomous Region, the lowest trust levels for many government entities and non-profit organizations are in the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Kemerovo Region and the Omsk region.