| Yuri Grigorovich | USSR |
International Jury
President
Members
| Giselle Santoro | Brazil |
| Monika Lubitz | Germany |
| Rallou Manou | Greece |
| Guido Lauri | Italy |
| Witold Borkowski | Poland |
| Stefan Gheorghe | Romania |
| Gedeon Dienes | Hungary |
| Andre-Philippe Hersin | France |
| Jiri Nemecek | Czechoslovakia |
| Gosta Slavberg | Sweden |
| Minoru Ochi | Japan |
Laureates
| Seniors | |
| First Prize | |
| Ilghiz Galimulin | USSR |
| Rinat Imaev | Bulgaria |
| Second Prize | |
| Tan Min | China |
| Ou Lu | China |
| Third Prize | |
| Maria Ilieva | Bulgaria |
| Sergey Bondur | USSR |
| Tibor Kovats | Hungary |
| Juniors | |
| Special Prize of the Youth Organization of Varna | |
| Vladimir Malakhov | USSR |
| First Class Distinction | |
| Li Ying | China |
| Second Class Distinction | |
| Nadezhda Grachova | USSR |
| Third Class Distinction | |
| Lorena Feijo | Cuba |
| Natalia Ledovskaya | USSR |
| Pang Jiabin | China |
