Бюро находится рядом с банком.

Бюро is a real Russian noun, often used for an office, bureau, or a small administrative/service office, depending on context.

A learner may notice that офис is also common in modern Russian. That is true:

• офис usually means an office in the modern business sense
• бюро can sound a bit more official, institutional, or specialized

So this sentence is grammatically normal, but in real life the exact word choice depends on what kind of office/bureau is meant.

In Russian, the present-tense verb to be is often omitted, but with location there are two common patterns:

• Бюро рядом с банком.
• Бюро находится рядом с банком.

Both are correct.

The version with находится sounds a bit more explicit and formal, like:

• The bureau is located next to the bank

The version without it is shorter and more conversational:

• The bureau is next to the bank

So находится is not required, but it is very natural.

Here находится means is located or is situated.

It comes from the verb находиться, which literally can mean something like to be found / to be located.

In this sentence, it is not about motion. It does not mean is going somewhere. It simply describes location.

So:

• Бюро находится рядом с банком = The bureau is located next to the bank

Because рядом с is a fixed expression meaning next to or near, and the noun after с must be in the instrumental case.

So:

• банк = nominative
• банком = instrumental

That is why you get:

• рядом с банком

This is a very important pattern to memorize:

• рядом с домом = next to the house
• рядом с машиной = next to the car
• рядом с банком = next to the bank

The basic form is банк.

It is a masculine noun, so in the singular instrumental case it normally takes -ом:

• банк → банком

This is a very common pattern for hard-stem masculine nouns:

• стол → столом
• магазин → магазином
• банк → банком

So if you see с банком after рядом, that is a strong clue that you are looking at the instrumental singular.

No. Бюро is one of those Russian nouns that are typically indeclinable, meaning its form usually stays the same in all cases.

So you may see:

• бюро
• в бюро
• рядом с бюро
• из бюро

The form often stays бюро.

This is useful for learners, because you do not have to memorize lots of case endings for this word. But you still need to know its grammatical role from the sentence.

Бюро is usually treated as neuter in Russian.

So if you needed to refer to it with an adjective, you would normally use neuter forms:

• новое бюро = a new bureau/office

Even though бюро does not decline in the normal way, it still has grammatical gender.

Russian has no articles like English a/an and the.

So Бюро находится рядом с банком could mean:

• The bureau is next to the bank
• A bureau is next to a bank
• sometimes even The office is next to a bank, depending on context

Russian relies on context much more than English does for this.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, although not completely random.

Your sentence:

• Бюро находится рядом с банком.

Other possible versions:

• Рядом с банком находится бюро.
• Бюро рядом с банком.

These all express basically the same core meaning, but the focus changes slightly:

• Бюро находится рядом с банком = neutral statement
• Рядом с банком находится бюро = emphasizes the location first
• Бюро рядом с банком = shorter, less formal

So the original sentence is a standard neutral version.

The stress is:

• бюро́
• нахо́дится
• ря́дом
• с
• ба́нком

A rough pronunciation guide:

• byu-RO
• na-HO-deet-sya
• RYA-dam
• s
• BAN-kam

A learner may also notice that с банком can sound like з банком in fast speech, because the с is voiced before a voiced consonant. That is normal in pronunciation, even though it is still spelled с.

Not always exactly.

Рядом с often means:

• next to
• right by
• near

It usually suggests fairly close physical proximity. In many contexts, next to is a very good translation.

If you just want a more general near, Russian also often uses:

• около
• возле

For example:

• около банка = near the bank
• возле банка = near/by the bank
• рядом с банком = next to / right near the bank

So рядом с often feels a bit more immediate and close.