Can I recover deleted iCloud contacts?

Question

I accidentally deleted all my contacts in my Mac Address Book, and (since everything is synced with iCloud) that subsequently removed the contacts from all my devices and icloud.com.
I have an iCloud backup for my iPhone from before I deleted my contacts. However, as I understand it, that backup is just a backup of my apps and settings (for example the setting that says use iCloud for Contacts). So when I restored from that iCloud backup, I still didn't have my contacts. I see the reasoning behind this, since iCloud itself is essentially the "back up" for your actual contacts data. But if a contact gets deleted from iCloud (which happened since I deleted contacts on a synced Address Book), how do I recover it?

Answer 1

Hi All,
I found the solution, i just tried it and it worked, hence thought of sharing it, to save you guys buying apps and etc.
Case :  In iCloud settings, i turned Contacts OFF and it asked to delete and i agreed, only then to realise that it was the wrong account, i wanted to turn off email contacts but instead chose iCloud.
Resolution  :
1. Go to www.icloud.com ASAP.
2. Enter your Apple ID credentials ( same used in iphone )
3. Select Contacts.
4. Select All contacts ( By pressing CMD+A )
5. After all contacts are highlighted, on the below left corner, click on the Options.
6. Select Export contacts vcf.
7. It will automatically download to the Downloads folder.
8. Automactically Contacts app will open and ask if you would like to import this contacts on ur MAC. Select NO.
9. Locate the Export contacts.vcf in Download folder, select it , right click it, and share it through Email.
10. Send an email to yourself.
11. Open the email, open the attachment ( which  would the contacts )
12. Select Add all contacts, select as New contacts.
13. All contacts will be added automatically, only the photos will dissappear.
Note : I have tried the above resolution only on iPhone, i have not deleted contacts from iMac, and tried the same.
Hope this helps, i could have restored the iphone also , but this was much quicker.