MOSCOW. Nov 16 (Interfax) - The 42 president-chosen members of Russia's Public Chamber elected 42 new members on Tuesday.

"All of the 42 new members, representing regional and inter-regional non-governmental organizations, have been elected and their names will be announced on Wednesday," MediaSoyuz Vice President Yelena Zelinskaya told Interfax.

Interfax has learned that leader of the Opora regional organization of entrepreneurs Sergei Borisov, Business Russia head Boris Titov, businessmen Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Fridman, lawyer Genry Reznik, chess player Anatoly Karpov, political scientists Sergei Markov and Andronik Migranian, Chamber of Commerce Vice President Sergei Katyrin, journalist Nikolai Svanidze, film director Karen Shakhnazarov, singer Alla Pugachyova and actress Yelena Proklova are among the 42 new members.

The "second third" of the Public Chamber also comprises former Young Communist League leader Viktor Mishin, political scientist Alexander Ignatenko and Russian Lawyers' Guild Chairman Gasan Mirzoyev, a source in the Public Chamber told Interfax.

"Sergei Borisov's nomination was upheld unanimously. Reznik won the second largest number of votes and Mirzoyev third," he said.

The election meeting had lasted for nearly eight hours. Overall, candidates from 186 non-governmental organizations competed for 42 seats in the "second third" of the Public Chamber.

The 84 Public Chamber members already elected are to choose 42 more members, representing regional and inter-regional non-governmental organizations before the end of December.

The first meeting of the 126-member Public Chamber is due to be held in January 2006.