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Some names should be abbreviated using not one but two characters, e. g. "Yuri Gagarin" => "Gagarin, Yu." But if I specify

author = "Gagarin, Yu."

or even

author = "Gagarin, {Yu.}"

bibtex nevertheless abbreviate it as "Gagarin, Y.", with only one character. How this can be corrected?

Compilable example, as requested in comments:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{filecontents}{bibliography.bib}
@book{pi,
  author = {Gagarin, Yu.},
  title  = {Everything is flying to 3.14},
}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
The rifle is a festivity\cite{pi}
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
\bibliography{bibliography}
\end{document}
vvch
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    Welcome to TeX.SE! Which bibliographystyle do you use? Can you show us a short compilable code building your bibliography? Do not forget to add an complete bib entry to your question ... – Mensch Jan 06 '19 at 05:21
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    author = "Gagarin, {\relax Yu}ri" is the standard trick, which should work with BibTeX styles that abbreviate first names. If you use biblatex you need another approach. – moewe Jan 06 '19 at 07:59
  • @moewe Thank you, seems working! I use bibtex, but biblatex solution is still welcome – vvch Jan 06 '19 at 08:38
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    For BibTeX this is a duplicate of https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/26332/35864. For biblatex we have https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/422938/35864 – moewe Jan 06 '19 at 10:31

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