Подразделение ГИБДД находится рядом с местом регистрации.

ГИБДД is an abbreviation for Государственная инспекция безопасности дорожного движения, which is the Russian traffic police / road safety inspection service.

In everyday speech, people usually pronounce the abbreviation as гибэдэдэ rather than reading the full name.

So in this sentence, Подразделение ГИБДД means something like a branch/department of the traffic police.

Подразделение means subdivision, department, branch, or unit.

In this sentence, it refers to a local office or branch of ГИБДД. So Подразделение ГИБДД is basically the local GIBDD office/department.

Grammatically, подразделение is:

• neuter
• singular
• in the nominative case here, because it is the subject of the sentence

In Russian, есть is usually not used the way English uses is for location.

To say where something is located, Russian often uses:

• находиться = to be located
• or sometimes simply no verb at all in the present tense, depending on the sentence

So:

• Подразделение ГИБДД находится рядом... = The GIBDD office is located near...

This sounds natural and standard in formal or neutral Russian.

Using есть here would not sound right for simple location.

The verb is находиться, which means to be located.

The -ся ending is a very common Russian verb ending. Sometimes it has a clearly reflexive meaning, but not always. In this case, you should learn находиться as a whole verb meaning to be situated / to be located.

So:

• находить = to find
• находиться = to be located

This is one of those cases where the -ся form has its own established meaning.

Because рядом normally combines with с when you specify what something is next to.

So Russian says:

• рядом с домом = next to the house
• рядом с метро = next to the metro
• рядом с местом регистрации = next to the place of registration

Think of рядом с as a fixed expression meaning near / next to.

Because рядом с requires the instrumental case.

The noun место changes like this:

• nominative: место
• instrumental: местом

So:

• с местом регистрации = with / next to the place of registration

Even though с often means with, in the expression рядом с it is just part of the phrase near / next to.

Регистрации is in the genitive singular.

Here, место регистрации literally means:

• place of registration
• or more naturally, registration place/location

This is a very common Russian pattern:

• центр города = city center
• номер телефона = phone number
• место регистрации = place of registration

So:

• местом is instrumental because of рядом с
• регистрации is genitive because it depends on место

No, that would sound wrong, because рядом, около, and возле all already express closeness, so you normally do not combine them that way.

You can say:

• рядом с местом регистрации
• около места регистрации
• возле места регистрации

All of these can mean near the place of registration, but they are built differently:

• рядом с
  • instrumental
• около
  • genitive
• возле
  • genitive

So in this sentence, рядом с местом регистрации is completely correct and natural.

Yes, there can be a small nuance.

• рядом с often feels like right next to or very close to
• около and возле usually mean near or close to

In many everyday contexts, they overlap and can all be translated as near, but рядом с can suggest a slightly more direct physical closeness.

Russian does not have articles like a or the.

So Подразделение ГИБДД can mean:

• a GIBDD department
• the GIBDD department

The exact meaning depends on context.

English requires an article, but Russian does not.

Not completely. Russian word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral, straightforward order here is:

• Подразделение ГИБДД находится рядом с местом регистрации.

But other orders are possible if you want to shift emphasis, for example:

• Рядом с местом регистрации находится подразделение ГИБДД.

This version puts more focus on the location first, something like: Near the place of registration, there is a GIBDD office.

So the original sentence is neutral and standard, but not the only possible order.

The main stresses are:

• подразделе́ние
• ГИБДД = гибэдэдэ́ in common pronunciation
• нахо́дится
• ря́дом
• ме́стом
• регистра́ции

Stress is important in Russian, so it is useful to learn the words together with their stress patterns.

Yes. Literally it means place of registration, but the exact real-world meaning depends on context.

It could refer to:

• the address where someone is registered
• the office connected with registration
• the registration location mentioned in some procedure

So grammatically it is straightforward, but the practical meaning may vary depending on the situation.