| Galina Ulanova | USSR |
International Jury
President
Members
| Elisabeth Kennedy | Great Britain |
| Arnold Haskell | Great Britain |
| Ursula Kollein | Germany |
| Allicia Alonso | Cuba |
| Maria Krziszkowska | Poland |
| Vasile Marcu | Romania |
| Feodor Lopukhov | USSR |
| Tatyana Vyacheslavova | USSR |
| Vera Kostic | Serbia |
| Zsuzsa Kun | Hungary |
| Serge Lifar | France |
| Genevieve Guillot | France |
| Jiri Nemecek | Czechoslovakia |
Laureates
| Grand Prix Varna | |
| Vladimir Vasiliev | USSR |
| First Prize | |
| Alla Sizova | USSR |
| Ekaterina Maximova | USSR |
| Vera Kirova | Bulgaria |
| Sergei Vikulov | USSR |
| Nikita Dolgushin | USSR |
| Second Prize | |
| Krassimira Koldamova | Bulgaria |
| Malika Sabirova | USSR |
| Magdalena Popa | Romania |
| Kalina Bogoeva | Bulgaria |
| Marta Drotnerova | Czechoslovakia |
| Muzafar Burkhanov | USSR |
| Woiczech Wiselowski | Poland |
| Jozef Forgacz | Hungary |
| Vsevolod Stefanski | Romania |
| Myrta Pla | Cuba |
| Third Prize | |
| Ichko Lazarov | Bulgaria |
| Konstantin Damyanov | Bulgaria |
| Margarita Trayanova | Bulgaria |
| Maria Kerkesi | Hungary |
| Jozefina Mendez | Cuba |
| Rodolfo Rodriguez | Cuba |
| Gyorgy Gessler | Hungary |