In May 1925, Sklyansky left on a tour of Germany, France, and the United States to acquire technical information. He arrived in the USA in August, and four days later, on 27 August, went on a boat trip in Long Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains in Hamilton County, New York)]] along with Isay Khurgin, the first head of Amtorg Trading Corporation. Both men were drowned.