Russian icons painted before the Mongol invasion of Rus do not featurechurches with onion domes. Two highly venerated pre-Mongol churches that havebeen rebuilt—the Assumption Cathedral and theCathedral of St. Demetrius in Vladimir—uniquely display golden helmet domes. Restorationwork on several other ancient churches revealed some fragments of formerhelmet-like domes below newer onion cupolas.。

蒙古人入侵之前的俄罗斯圣像画显示，人们不会用洋葱式圆顶装饰教堂， 两座重建的被高度崇敬的蒙古前教堂——圣母升天大教堂和在弗拉基米尔的圣德米特里大教堂，是唯一显示使用了金色头盔圆顶的。在其他一些古老教堂的修复工作中，人们发现了在新的洋葱圆顶之下有一些头盔状的圆顶碎片。

It has been posited that oniondomes first appeared during the reign of Ivanthe Terrible. The domes of Saint Basil's Cathedral have not beenaltered since the reign of Ivan's son Fyodor I,indicating the presence of onion domes in the sixteenth-century Russia.

人们假定洋葱式圆顶最早出现在伊凡雷帝统治时期，圣巴西尔大教堂的圆顶自伊万的儿子菲奥多尔的统治期以来就没有被改变（破坏），由此证明了十六世纪洋葱式圆顶的出现。

Some scholars postulate thatonion domes were borrowed by Russians from Muslim countries - probably from the Khanateof Kazan, whose conquest Ivan the Terrible commemorated by erecting St.Basil's Cathedral.Some believe that onion domes first appeared in Russian wooden architectureabove tent-like churches. According to this theory,onion domes were strictly utilitarian, as they prevented snow from piling onthe roof·

一些学者推测，洋葱式圆顶是俄罗斯人从穆斯林国家借用而来的，可能是来自喀山汗国。伊凡雷帝建造圣巴索大教堂纪念对其的侵略。有些人认为洋葱式圆顶首次出现在俄罗斯木质建筑上面的帐篷般的教堂。根据这个理论，洋葱式圆顶完全是出于实用，因为它们可以阻止积雪堆放在屋顶上。

Based on the notion that oniondomes did not exist in Russiabefore the mid-sixteenth century, restoration work on churches built before theseventeenth century have routinely involved replacement of onion domes with"more authentic" helmet-shaped domes. One example of such restorationis the Dormition Cathedral in the MoscowKremlin.

基于洋葱式圆顶在十六世纪中期之前并不存在于俄罗斯的观点，在对那些建造于十七世纪前的教堂的修复工作中 ，经常涉及更换“更真实的”的盔形的穹顶的问题，这种恢复的一个例子是在莫斯科克里姆林宫的安息堂。