Career
He played as a hitter for the Spartak volleyball team and CSKA Moscow (1960). In 1968 he began coaching the men"s volleyball team CSKA Moscow, winners of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics championship in 1971 and 1984. He then coached the CSKA Moscow women"s volleyball team from 1984 to 1986.
Kliger"s wife is well-known Soviet volleyball player Tamara Tikhonina.