Development as a comprehensive process aimed at concerned with improving all facets of a nation's well-being is closely connected with a political economy approach seeking to bring into realization the “Successful State – Successful Economy” dichotomy. Different states adopted different models of economic growth and development based on numerous considerations such as one’s spatial planning. Russia, due to its territorial extent and underdevelopment, after the imperial colonial periods and the centralized planned economy of the USSR, is currently undergoing its third phase of economic transition. This paper seeks to provide an answer to “How has the authoritarian centralist planning affected the economic development in Russia?” The hypothesis argues that authoritarian development in Russia does not include fundamental changes in the economic structures of Russia, but it relies on the rent of the country's natural resources. This approach along with individual authoritarianism, due to the rapid establishment of non-simulative extractive industries in limited areas and also the lack of market logic, has so far marked the unbalanced and unstable development in Russia. This basic descriptive research is of a qualitative type. Furthermore, the data collection method is that of library research conducted alongside interviews. As well as the model of data analysis is the theory of growth poles.