According to Belarus President Decree № 136rp from 24 August 2017 Alexander V. Kilchevsky, the Chief Scientific Secretary of the NASB Presidium, and Vitalij V. Lapa, Director of the Republican Scientific Subsidiary Unitary Enterprise the Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry, received Belarus President’s Letter of commendation in recognition of the many-year productive scientific work, a big personal contribution to the development of agrochemical research and topical areas of biotechnology, genetics and plant breeding, training of top-qualification specialists.