| Yuri Grigorovich | USSR |
International Jury
President
Members
| Arnold Haskell | Great Britain |
| Tom Schilling | Germany |
| Octavio Cintolesi | Germany |
| Rallou Manou | Greece |
| Magda Saleh | Egypt |
| Giuliana Penzi | Italy |
| Lyudmila Chiriaeff | Canada |
| Allicia Alonso | Cuba |
| Witold Borkowski | Poland |
| Magdalena Popa | Romania |
| Walter Terry | USA |
| Katarina Obradovic | Serbia |
| Evinc Sunal | Turkey |
| Zsuzsa Kun | Hungary |
| Lycette Darsonval | France |
| Margaret von Bahr | Finland |
| Jiri Nemecek | Czechoslovakia |
| James Moore | Sweden |
| Yokiko Tomoi | Japan |
Laureates
| Seniors | |
| First Prize | |
| Yoko Morishita | Japan |
| Fernando Bujones | USA |
| Mikhail Tzivin | USSR |
| Bisser Deyanov | Bulgaria |
| Second Prize | |
| Evgenia Krasteva | Bulgaria |
| Lasaro Careno | Cuba |
| Gabor Kevehazy | Hungary |
| Third Prize | |
| Tatyana Ershova | USSR |
| Myrta Garcia | Cuba |
| Ramasan Bappov | USSR |
| Fourth Prize | |
| Tatyana Kapustina | USSR |
| Tetsutaru Shimizu | Japan |
| Fifth Prize | |
| Alexander Martinov | USSR |
| Leonid Kozlov | as a participant from USSR |
| Juniors | |
| Special Prize of the Youth Organization of Varna | |
| Galina Tessyolkina | USSR |
| First Class Distinction | |
| Soile Hainonen | Finland |
| Second Class Distinction | |
| Rita Hainonen | Finland |
| Lubomir Kafka | Czechoslovakia |
| Third Class Distinction | |
| Chiharu Ivakoshi | Japan |
| Gheorghe Jancu | Romania |