sentences:  A significant number of the American workers returned to the United States .By 1926, no more than 10 colonists remained in Russia, who soon left for other cities of the country.One of the remaining leaders of the AIC, a former worker at the Ford plant in Detroit and the first elected mayor of the American village in Kuzbass, John Tuchelsky, was transferred to the Gorky Automobile Plant after the liquidation of the AIC and later executed during the Great Purge.