The 1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were held in Leningrad, Soviet Union between December 27, 1973, and January 6, 1974.

The host Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 5–0 record.

[1] This was the first edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records.

[2] Canada was represented by a club team, the Peterborough Petes, while the other five nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players.

[3] The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other five teams once each.