| Yuri Grigorovich | USSR |
International Jury
President
Members
| Arnold Haskell | Great Britain |
| Tom Schilling | Germany |
| Olympia Gelodari | Greece |
| Alan Fridericia | Denmark |
| Enayat Azmi | Egypt |
| Lyudmila Chiriaeff | Canada |
| Allicia Alonso | Cuba |
| Vasile Marcu | Romania |
| Walter Terry | USA |
| Katarina Obradovic | Serbia |
| Evinc Sunal | Turkey |
| Zsuzsa Kun | Hungary |
| Clotilda Ugray | Hungary |
| Andre-Philippe Hersin | France |
| Margaret von Bahr | Finland |
| Jiri Nemecek | Czechoslovakia |
| Gerd Anderson | Sweden |
| Yokiko Tomoi | Japan |
Laureates
| Seniors | |
| First Prize | |
| Marin Boyeru | Romania |
| Second Prize | |
| Hanna Vlacilova | Czechoslovakia |
| Larissa Vassilevska | USSR |
| Mikhail Krapivin | USSR |
| Third Prize | |
| Ildiko Pongor | Hungary |
| Leonid Kozlov | as a participant from USSR |
| Fourth Prize | |
| Pavlina Gheleva | Bulgaria |
| Leen Charles | USA |
| Lubomir Kafka | Czechoslovakia |
| Fifth Prize | |
| Nikolay Fyodorov | USSR |
| Juniors | |
| Special Prize of the Youth Organization of Varna | |
| Patrick Dupond | France |
| First Class Distinction | |
| Alla Mikhalchenko | USSR |
| Second Class Distinction | |
| Silvie Chevalier | Canada |
| Inessa Dumpe | USSR |
| Ben Van Kauenberg | Belgium |
| Third Class Distinction | |
| Gheorghe Jancu | Romania |
| Yassen Vulchanov | Bulgaria |