In Memoriam 1992-1997/Alexandr Kukleen
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ALEXANDR KUKLEEN
1950—1996
lexandr KukIeen was born on July 28, 1950, to Nadezhda Fyodorovna KukIeena and Innokentiy Grigorevich Kukleen in the Village of Dementevo, Kuzhenersk, Region of Marijskaya Republic, Russia. Having finished school in 1969, Alexandr started working as a metalworker at a shipyard in Volgograd. His work was
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interrupted by his service in the Soviet Army. He returned to the shipyard in 1971 and later graduated from the correspondence department of the Volgograd Industrial Technical School.
In 1977 he entered theAll Union Financial and Economics Institute and was offered a job in the Sovietsky Regional Financial Department in Volgograd. In 1981 Alexandr moved to the city of Dnepropetrovsk where he worked as a controller (comptroller), first in the regional department of the Ministry of Finance Administration of the UkrainianSoviet Socialist Republic. Ihen he worked as a controller in the city financial department until 1989. Meanwhile in 1983 he graduated from the institute with a degree in economics.
From 1989 to 1993 he worked at a pipeproducing factory. Then he became the leading controller at the AgrO—Industrial Bank of Ukraina.
Alexandr was introduced to the Faith by Mila Shagum in July 1992, and he declared his faith on the 5th of September. For two
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years, 1995 and 1996, he was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of the city of Dnepropetrovsk.
On April 30, 1993, the first Bahá’í wedding in Dnepropetrovsk took place when Alexandr and Mila Shagum were married.
With hearts full of sorrow we inform you of the passing on 23 May 1996 of a dearly-loved member of our community and of our Local Spiritual Assembly—Alexandr Kukleen, age 45. He died by electrocution in a tragic accident when he fell from a high—Voltage electrical station onto some cables below and then plunged another 12 meters to the ground.
We ask the House of Justice to remember him in prayers at the Sacred Threshold that his progress in the next world will be great. Please remember also the grief—stricken members of his family, particularly his wife—Mila Shagum. Theirs was the first Bahá’í wedding in our community.
On May 30, 1996, the Department of the Secretariat responded:
The Universal House of Justice received your email of 27 May 1996 and was saddened to learn of the tragic death of Mr. Alexandr Kukleen. Kindly convey its loving sympathy to his Wife and family, and assure them that the House of Justice will offer prayers in the Holy Shrines for the progress of Mr. Kukleen’s soul, and for their
comfort and consolation.
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