From a family of painters. Together with his father worked in icon-painting and restoration workshop of Mstera, Moscow, Novgorod. In 1918. father and son Klykova worked in the restoration Department under the guidance of I. E. Grabar. Among the best masters I. N. The canines in 1918. Vladimir was discovered and restored frescoes by Andrei Rublev and Daniel Black in the assumption Cathedral.