Leonid Klimov

Commercial

1970–71 – fireman for the municipal fire department of the city of Makiivka.

1971–73 – service in the army.

1973–76 – driver for the Odesa branch of the RAdio-Telegraph Agency for the Cabmin of UkrSSR (RATAU), the Odesa plant producing tactical construction vehicles, and the Regional Tuberculosis Clinic.

1974–79 – student of the Odesa Institute of People's Economy.

1976 – manager of Store #11 of the Odesa Regional office of the Ukrainian Republican Union Sportproducts.

1976–79 – chief of the Instruction Department of the Central District Committee of Lenin's Komsomol of the Ukrainian Peasant's Youth (LKSMU) in the city of Odesa.

1979–80 – instructor of the organizational department for the executive committee of the Odesa City Council of People's Deputies.

1980–82 – acting for the deputy-chief of theVRP, a chief of the trade-producing sector for the Odesa Railroad.

1982–89 – deputy-director and director of the Seaside Produce trade for the Odesa Trade Administration.

1989 – deputy-chief of the Trade Administration for the Odesa Oblast Executive Committee.

1989–90 – chief of service and the general director of the Railroad Association, and chief of the worker's supply department for the Odesa Railroad.

1990–91 – director of the small enterprise "Progress" (Prohres), the city of Odesa.

1991–95 – president of the collective enterprise "Trade house-Seaside Ltd." (Torhovy dim-Prymorya LTD), the city of Odesa.

1995–2001 – president of the CJSC Financial Group "Seaside" (Prymorya), the city of Odesa.

2001–02 – president of the CJSC Football Club "Chornomorets".

Political

April 2002 – April 2006 – People's Deputy of Ukraine (IV Convocation) from electoral district #143 of Odesa Oblast nominated by the political bloc For United Ukraine!, and received 30.35% of votes while competing against 10 other candidates.

At the time of the elections – president of the Odesa Bank Union.

May–June 2002 – member of the Party of Regions while also in the political bloc For United Ukraine!.

June 2002 – September 2005 – authorized representative of bloc Regions of Ukraine.

From September 2005 – authorized representative of the bloc for the political party Regions of Ukraine.

June 2002 – May 2006 – member of the Banking and Finance Committee.

April 2006 – November 2007 – People's Deputy of Ukraine (V Convocation) from the Party of Regions, listed as #39.

From July 2006 – member of the Banking and Finance Committee.

From May 2006 – member of the political bloc Party of Regions.

From November 2007 – People's Deputy of Ukraine (VI Convocation) from the Party of Regions, listed as #38.

In the 2012 parliamentary election he was (re)-elected into parliament for Party of Regions after winning (with 48.46%) in single-member districts number 137 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Odesa Oblast. In 2014, he joined the parliamentary faction Economic Development.

In the 2014 parliamentary election Klimov was re-elected into parliament again as an independent candidate again in single-member districts number 137; this time with 30.09% of the votes.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Klimov lost reelection as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 137 (Podilsk).