  We derive a generalized Balitskii-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov equation, which
applies directly to the perturbative QCD component of total cross section. With
the gluon correlation radius $R_{c} \sim 0.4$f we reproduce the empirical rate
of growth of the hadron-nucleon total cross sections. The simultaneous estimate
of the triple-pomeron coupling also agrees with the experiment.
