1969, 1st International Ballet Competition

Gold medal winners:

- Nina Sorokina (U.S.S.R.)
- Juri Vladimirov (U.S.S.R.)
- Francesca Zumbo (France)
- Patrice Bart (France)
- Malika Sabirova (U.S.S.R.)
- Mikhail Baryshnikov (U.S.S.R.)

1973, 2nd International Ballet Competition

Grand-Prix:

- Nadezhda Pavlova (USSR)

Gold medal winners:

- Amparo Brito Gonzales (Republic of Cuba)
- Aleksander Godunov (U.S.S.R.)
- Vjaceslav Gordeev (U.S.S.R.)

1977, 3rd International Ballet Competition

Gold medal winners:

- Alla Mikhalchenko (U.S.S.R.)
- Nina Semizorova (U.S.S.R.)
- Mikhail Krapivin (U.S.S.R.)
- Danjlo Radoevic (Australia)

1981, 4th International Ballet Competition

Grand-Prix:

- Irek Mukhamedov (USSR)

Gold medal winners:

- Alla Artjuskina-Khaniasvili (U.S.S.R.)
- Margarita Perkun-Bebeziche (U.S.S.R.)
- Janis Pikieris (Venezuela)
 

1985, 5th International Ballet Competition

Gold medal winners:

- Julio Bocca (Argentina)
- Nina Ananiashvili (U.S.S.R.)
- Marina Leonkina (U.S.S.R.)
- Aleksander Vetrov (U.S.S.R.)
- Vadim Pisarev (U.S.S.R.)
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1989, 6th International Ballet Competition

Gold medal winners:

- Cristina McDermot (Switzerland)
- Galina Stepanenko (U.S.S.R.)
- Vladimir Malakhov (U.S.S.R.) 

1993, 7th International Ballet Competition

Gold medal winners:

- Helena Knyazkova (Russia)

- Bernard Courtot de Bouteiller (France)

- Morihiro Ivata (Japan)

1997, 8th International Ballet Competition

Grand-Prix:

- Andrei Batalov (Russia)

Gold medal winners:

- Maria Alexandrova (Russia) 

- Zhang Zan (China) 

- German Comejo (Argentina) 

- Nikolai Tsiskaridze (Russia)

Galina Ulanova was the President of the Jury of the 1st International Ballet Competition for Ballet Artists.
Yury Grigorovich was the President of the Jury of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th International Ballet Competitions.

YURI GRIGOROVICH

Yuri Grigorovich, the outstanding Russian choreographer, graduate of the Petersburg school of Russian classical ballet, began his career as soloist at the Maryinsky Theatre where he was later to mount his first important choreo-graphic works "Stone Flower" by S.Prokofiev and "Legend of Love" by A.Melikov. These productions made Grigorovich's name as a choreographer and pointed the way to new trends that, for many years, determined the devel-opment of the Russian ballet.
For over 30 years (1964-1995), Yuri Grigorovich was chief choreogra-pher of the Bolshoi Theatre. These were the years of the company's greatest ar-tistic achievements when it won for itself a world-wide reputation. Under Grig-orovich the Bolshoi Ballet Company went on over 90 foreign tours, thus estab-lishing the leadership of the Russian classical school of ballet all over the world and bringing world fame to the company's brilliant galaxy of soloists.
The ballets Grigorovich created at the Bolshoi made him famous. They include: Thaikovsky's "Natcracker" (1966), "Spartacus" by A.Khachaturyan (1968), "Ivan The Terrible" S.Prokofiev (1975), "Angara" A.Eshpai (1976), "Romeo and Juliet" S.Prokofiev (1979). And "The Golden Age" D.Shostakovich (1982).
He also choreographed new versions of such masterpieces of the past as "The Sleeping Beauty"(1963,1973) and "Swan Lake"(1969), "Ray-monda"(1984), "Giselle" (1987), "La Bayadere" (1991), "Don Quixote" and "Le Corsaire" (1994).
Yuri Grigorovich has staged his ballets in Stockholm, Rome, Paris, Co-penhagen, Viena, Milan, Helsinki, Ankara, Prague, Sofia, Genova, Warsaw, Seul. In 1990-1994 he founded a new company "Grigirovich-Ballet". In 1996 he choreographed for different companies from Ufa, Krasnodar, Omsk, Ekaterinbourg, Kishinev, Kiev, Minsk.
Grigorovich has headed juries of international ballet competitions in Russia, Finland, the USA, Switzerland, Japan, Bulgaria and the Ukraine and he is the Chairman of the "Benois de la Danse" award, which enjoys the patronage of UNESCO. He is also a Member of the Vienna Music Society, the Honorable Chairman of the International Theatre Institute, Chairman of the International Dance Union and honorable Chairman of the Ukrainian Dance Academy.

MARINA SEMENOVA
Marina Semenova — a legend of the Russian ballet, an outstanding dancer and a great pedagogue, a person of the century in the sphere of choreography, whose talent is beyond any times and epochs.
The famous ballets of the Impetrator's were still performed when Semenova started her career. She could learn and absorb traditions of the great Russian classical ballet school and teach them later to her students - ballet stars of nowadays.
It was Marina Semenova who was the first and the most favourite student of Agripina Vaganova, the founder of modern classical ballet methodic. From her honoured teacher Semenova gained brilliant education and because of that she became a symbol of a new epoch in dancing art. She proved the right of classical ballet to exist despite all difficulties our country was going through. To the bright virtuousness and exactitude of Russian classical ballet she brought a new natural manner of dancing.
Public always admired Semenova's flawless technique, queenly statue and great ballerina's aplomb.
She managed to unite Saint-Petersburg ballet academic tradition, Moscow bright emotionality and the power of own actor's talent to hypnotize the public.
For nearly half a century Semenova has been growing up new masters of ballet - in The Bolshoi, in G1TIS, in Choreography College. Like no other, she could see and open the inner world of a future ballet star and reveal the individuality. Her classes taught strength, formed clean and flawless lines and poses, prepared for performances. Such great ballet stars as M.Plisetskaya, N.Bessmernova, N.Sorokina, M.Kondratyeva, N.Timofeeva, G. Stepanenko are among her students.
She has celebrated her a hundred anniversary recently.