Kleiman Yevgeny Grigoryevich (born 28 August 1918, Gomel) — electric welder.

Yevgeny Kleiman was born into a family of office workers. In 1930, his parents moved to the Crimean region. After completing five grades of primary school, he began working. From 1930 to 1938, he worked as a cattleman, herdsman, groom, and tractor-combine operator in the Novoselovsky District of Crimea. In 1935, he graduated from a mechanization training course. From 1938 to 1940, he worked as an assembly fitter at the Kommunar factory in Zaporizhzhia.

In 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army and served on the fronts of the Second World War until 1945. After being severely wounded near Budapest, he was demobilized as a First Group Disabled War Veteran.

After the war, Yevgeny Kleiman moved to Riga. In 1946, he worked as a driver at the Higher Officer Flight School. From 1949 to 1959, he was employed by the Riga Invalids’ artel: as a worker in the caramel department (1949–55) and as a confectioner specializing in Eastern sweets (1955–59). In 1957–58, he took part in harvest campaigns on the Virgin Lands. From 1959 to 1973, he worked as an electric welder at the VEF factory.

He was married to Faina (Feiga) Kleiman (née Aronovich) (b. 1926, Riga). Their daughters are Sofia Sosner (née Kleiman) (b. 1947, Riga) and Raisa Perlman (née Kleiman) (b. 1949, Riga).

Kleiman was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) but left the party after applying for permission to emigrate to Israel.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, and medals “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” “20 Years of Victory over Germany,” “25 Years of Victory over Germany,” “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR,” and “For the Development of Virgin Lands.”

In 1973, Yevgeny Kleiman received permission to emigrate to Israel to join his daughter Sofia Sosner (née Kleiman), who had left Latvia a year earlier. During the 1970s, he lived in Tel Aviv, where he worked as a welder.

Family:

Faina (Feiga) Kleiman (née Aronovich) (b. 1926, Riga) — wife
Sofia Sosner (née Kleiman) (b. 1947, Riga) — daughter
Raisa Perlman (née Kleiman) (b. 1949, Riga) — daughter
Leonid Kleiman (b. 1910, Gomel) — brother
Mikhail Kleiman (b. 1920, Gomel) — brother
Sara Modylevskaya (née Kleiman) (b. 1914, Bragin, Belarus) — sister