At the staff meeting on April 4, 2022, the First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Sergey Chizhik presented the badge «Big medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus» to Mikhail Kheyfets, Director of the Institute of Applied Physics, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, for many years of fruitful scientific and organizational activity, a significant contribution in the development of the theoretical foundations for the design of technologies and equipment for high-tech production, the development of methods for monitoring and controlling the properties of materials and surfaces of engineering products and in connection with the 60th anniversary of his birth.