BFKL -- past and future

Abstract

This paper contains my recollection of the creation and development of the so-called BFKL approach and my ideas about the ways of its further development.

Comments: 23 pages, 3 figures. A contribution to the memorial volume entitled `From the past to the future - the legacy of Lev Lipatov' edited by J. Bartels {\it et al}~.}