Edition - 1965 1st Prize: Viktor Pikaizen (USSR) 2nd Prize: Philippe Hirschhorn (USSR) 3rd Prize: Andrei Korsakov (USSR) 4th Prize: Yoko Kubo (Japan) 5th Prize : Elisabeth Balmas (France), Joshua Epstein (Israel) and Jacques Israelievitch (France) XIII Edition - 1966 1st Prize: not assigned 2nd Prize: Robert Menga (US) 3rd Prize: Isako Shinozaki (Japan) 5th Prize : Nicolai Marangosof (Bulgaria) and Kineko Okumura (Japan) XIV Edition - 1967 1st Prize: Grigori Zhislin (USSR) 2nd Prize: Vladimir Spivakov (USSR) 3rd Prize: Patrice Fontanarosa (France) 4th Prize: Petar Delcev (Bulgaria) 5th Prize: Sergio Diacenko (USSR) 6th Prize: Mikhail Gantwarg (USSR) XV Edition - 1968 1st Prize: Miriam Fried (Israel) 2nd Prize: Hamao Fujiwara (Japan) 3rd Prize: Gabriella Ijac (Romania) 4th Prize: Petar Delcev (Bulgaria) 5th Prize: Masako Yanagita (Japan) 6th Prize: Emmanuel Krivine (France) XVI Edition - 1969 1st Prize: Gidon Kremer (USSR) 2nd Prize: Kathleen Lenski (US) 3rd Prize: Joshua Epstein (Israel) 4th Prize: Isidora Schwarzberg (USSR) 5th Prize: Sergey Kravchenko (USSR) 6th Prize: Josef Rissin (USSR) 7th Prize: Adam Korniszewski (Poland) XVII Edition - 1970 1st Prize: not assigned 2nd Prize: Mintcho Mintchev (Bulgaria) 3rd Prize: Thomas Goldschmidt Egel (Germany) and Michał Grabarczyk (Poland) 5th Prize: Adam Korniszewski (Poland) 6th Prize: Keiko Wataya (Japan) XVIII Edition - 1971 1st Prize: Mose Sekler (USSR) 2nd Prize: Bogodar Kotorovych (USSR) 3rd Prize: Roswitha Randacher (Austria) 4th Prize: Tadeusz Gadzina (Poland) 5th Prize: Elvira Nakipbecova (USSR) 6th Prize: Maria Balint (Hungary) XIX Edition - 1972 1st Prize: Eugene Fodor (US) 2nd Prize: Yoko Sato (Japan) 3rd Prize: Gerardo Ribeiro (Portugal) 4th Prize: Georgi Tilev (Bulgaria) 5th Prize: Teresa Glabowna (Poland) XX Edition - 1973 1st Prize: Alexander Kramarov (USSR) 2nd Prize: Yuval Yaron (Israel) 3rd Prize: Vania Milanova (Bulgaria) 4th Prize: Sungil Lee (Korea) 5th Prize: Giuliano Carmignola (Italy) and Stefan Stalanowski (Poland) XXI Edition - 1974 1st Prize: not assigned 2nd Prize: Lynn Chang (US) and Eugen Sârbu (Romania) 4th Prize: Rasma Lielmane (Mexico) 5th Prize: Josif Rissin (Israel) 6th Prize: Jean-Claude Velin (France) 7th Prize: Marie-France Pouillot (France) XXII Edition - 1975 1st Prize: Yuri Korchinski (USSR) 2nd Prize: Petru Csaba (Romania) 6th Prize : Mark Fornaciari (Italy) and Anna Aleksandra Wodka (Poland) XXIII Edition - 1976 1st Prize: Lenuța Ciulei (Romania) 2nd Prize: Karen Eley (US) 3rd Prize: Vladimir Nemțeanu (Romania) 4th Prize: Fudeko Takahashi (Japan) 5th Prize: Joanna Madroszkiewicz (Poland) XXIV Edition - 1977 1st Prize: Ilya Grubert (USSR)