The tasks of the expedition were:# Relief of the first expedition# Full scale scientific work for the International Geophysical Year (IGY)# Organisation of two IGY scientific stations near the south geomagnetic pole and pole of relative inaccessibility# An inland tractor-sledge traverse for glaciology# Oceanography==See also==*1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition*3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition== References ==* A V Nudel Man "Soviet Antarctic Expeditions 1955–1959", Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva, 1959 (translated from the Russian by the Israel program for scientific translations, Jerusalem, 1966 for the National Science Foundation).