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This is a survey article about intersections of Lagrangians and balls in symplectic manifolds. Let us quote a few of them. Theorem A (Gromov). Let \(L\subset T^*(X)\) be an exact Lagrangian submanifold. Then: 1) For every Lagrangian \(L'\) which is Hamiltonianly isotopic to \(L\) we have \(L\cap L'\neq\emptyset\). 2) \(L\cap O_X\neq\emptyset\), in particular \(L\) cannot be separated from the zero-section \(O_X\) of \(T^*(X)\) by any Hamiltonian isotopy. Theorem \(E\) (Biran). Let \(B_\varphi\) be the image of a symplectic embedding \(\varphi: B^{2n}(R)\to \mathbb{C} P^n\). If \(R^2\geq 1/2\) then \(B_\varphi\cap \mathbb{R} P^n\neq\emptyset\). At the end, the author gives some application to the study of degenerations of algebraic varieties. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0993.00022].