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After the death of his parents (approx. in 1933) him and his sister – Kladova Valentina Panteleevna – got separated and were put in different orphanages. When the war started in the USSR in 1941 Valentina Kladova joined the Soviet Army and stayed with them until the war ended in 1945. We know that Leonid Kladov was also taking part in the war as in 1944 a letter from him was received in Novo-Kladovo - his native village. He was writing from the front, asking whether there were any relatives left in the village and the whereabouts of his sister. This letter was forwarded to Valentina Kladova. She wrote back to him and got a reply from someone else, saying that Leonid Kladov had been injured and was taken to hospital. She has never heard from him since and does not have any information about what has happened to him and whether he is still alive. If you have any information about Leonid Kladov please e-mail us to: galina@kladov.co.uk Please ask everyone in your family and people you know. Leonid Kladov might have returned home or he might have stayed abroad after the war ended in 1945. He might have assumed there were no family left in his homeland and therefore he had no reason for coming back. We ask you to spread the word around, and contact us should this name trigger your memory. It would mean a lot to us to hear anything about one member of our family – Kladov Leonid Panteleevich. Please also let us know any your comments and suggestions regarding this web-site: galina@kladov.co.uk. Thank you for looking at our pages. Kladova Valentina Panteleevna - Leonid's sister; (Photo: Valentina Kladova - Vienna, Austria, 1945)
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